Hyenas are the second brother of Africa, and even when the lion meets it, he doesn't want to fight it, but such a powerful animal is conquered by Africans and taken home as a pet dog!
On the African continent, hyenas are very powerful animals, second only to the steppe overlord lion, and often rob lions of food and sneak up on lioness cubs.
Bullying other animals is also something they often do.
Although the size of hyenas is not as large as that of lions, they are superior to the large number, and their calls are unusually penetrating and sharp! They have sharp teeth, they can easily bite the bones of bison, and pulling out their anus is their best skill!
And hyenas are very smart, they understand that unity is strength, so in the hyena herd, the leader of the group is led by the powerful hyena queen.
There are animals living in the African savannah, and almost no one dares to provoke them, and even lions, hippos, leopards and other beasts of prey will retreat from hounds.
But it was such an arrogant second brother, who was obediently ruled by Africans, and became a watchdog.
What is the ability of Africans to make this dangerous beast willing to take care of itself?
First of all, let's understand the strength of hyenas.
Although the hyena looks like a dog and has a dog word in its name, in fact, it is not related to the dog, but it is closely related to the blood of the cat.
So hyenas belong to the hyena family under the cat-type family,
Hyena spotted hyenas, striped hyenas, brown hyenas, they are collectively known as coyotes.
Among them, the spotted hyena is the African second brother we are most familiar with, and the African brother is of course an African honey badger who uses poisonous snakes as spicy teeth.
Unlike other hyenas, the other brothers prefer to live alone, while the spotted hyenas live in groups in a matriarchal society.
In nature, other animals are stronger and more beautiful than females, because otherwise, you can't get the heart of the female, too thin, will make the female feel that your genes are not good, can not protect themselves.
The ban hyena is just the opposite, the female spotted hyena is larger than the male, and the female spotted hyena is also larger than them. Male class hyenas have a very low status.
The rank of the spotted hyena is also particularly strict, and the queen and the high-status female spotted hounds are often the first to enjoy the prey and eat the best meat on the prey.
After the female hyena is satisfied, the male hyena can only eat the remaining limbs and broken bones, and the life is also passed.
It is precisely because of this clear ethnic hierarchy that the spotted hyena group can unite and cooperate in the face of prey and enemies, and the division of labor is clear, and there will be no chaotic phenomenon.
A class hyena is very weak, may not be very impressive, but the strength of a group of hyenas is not small!
In the documentary, we often see hyenas stealing other animal food, rarely hunting themselves.
But in real life, hyenas are expert hunters! They are also fearless in the face of large and medium-sized herbivores such as wild buffaloes, wildebeests, and antelopes, which are several times larger than their size, and even have eight chances of success in 11 hunts.
It can be seen that the strength of the spotted hyena can not be underestimated, when they hunt in groups, they first converge with the prey to fight psychological warfare, using a low roar to pretend to attack, forcing the prey to show flaws, when the time is almost the same, they will pounce on the anus!
The anus is the weakest part of the animal, and it is easily attacked by spotted hyenas, and the fallen prey is swallowed alive and stripped alive by the spotted hyena group in just a few moments.
But no matter how ferocious the hyenas have opponents, Africans should be their most feared objects.
How did Africans, who were weaker than spotted hyenas, subdue them?
In fact, not every African can subdue spotted hyenas, only specialized people can tame them.
Such people are revered by the locals as beast trainers.
This is not the same as circus trainers, who can die in Africa!
In Africa, becoming a beast trainer is not a simple task, they must understand the habits of hyenas from an early age, so as to increase the probability of successful hunting and reduce casualties.
Usually, the trainer will take his apprentice to lurk in the area where the spotted hyena is frequent, looking for the right time to catch their cubs or lightly injured spotted hyenas.
When the spotted hound is caught, in order not to be discovered by the hyena mother, the animal trainer will immediately take it out of the grassland and return to his village.
Newly arrested spotted hyenas are often untamed and wild, and in order to prevent them from biting people, the trainer will put a muzzle on them, so that the strength of the spotted hyena is weakened.
Then in the days that followed, as long as the spotted hyena disobeyed, it would be beaten up by the beast trainer, and obedience would be rewarded.
In this way, the African animal trainer successfully trained the bar hounds into docile and well-behaved pet dogs with a big stick and red dates.
Although it is a pet dog, but there is no pet dog should have the treatment, the domesticated spotted hyena, usually need to go to the street to cooperate with the owner to sell art to make money, if the performance is not good, then after the end of the scene will usher in a severe beating by the owner.
However, there are also some spotted hyenas with better luck and encounter owners with a milder personality, so they generally look after the nursing home or play with the little master, which is much better than selling art on the street.
It has to be said that the means by which Africans domesticate spotted hyenas are cruel, although spotted hyenas look ugly and their predation methods are cruel, but this is also their way of survival, if humans interfere with the natural world by preference, the consequences will not be imagined.
There are still many people who say that man is determined to win the day, but in fact, we humans are also part of nature, without nature, how can we exist, can be in the future one day, the earth looks at us unfavorably, at any time may be cleared of us!
Hyenas are afraid of Africans! What do you think about that? Feel free to share your views in the comments section
#奇妙知识季 #