In the African savannah, the "second brother" hyena often harasses the "big brother" lion, they dare to compete with the lion for food, and even bite the lioness and the lion cub, which can be said to be very fierce. Some people may wonder, hyenas are so strong in combat, why not domesticate it into a police dog? This is a very interesting topic, let's discuss whether hyenas can be police dogs.
Perhaps in everyone's impression, the hyena has a dog, it is considered that it is a dog belongs to the canine family, but it is not a dog, does not belong to the canine family, in fact, it belongs to the hyena family, and the cat family, the badger family, and the civet cat family belong to the same cat type family.
Hyenas are a very ferocious animal, there are spotted hyenas, striped hyenas, brown hyenas, coyotes under the hyena family, the largest of which is the spotted hyena, with an average body length of 95-160 cm and an average weight of 40-86 kg. If hyenas can be police dogs, just one "dig anus" can make criminals feel frightened. So, what are the requirements to become a police dog?
1. Moderate body shape
As a police dog, the size can not be too large or too small, if the size is too large, it will not be flexible enough, the movement is not convenient, if the size is too small, it is not enough combat effectiveness, it is easy to be injured by criminals, causing no deterrence. As a police dog with a medium body size is the most suitable, generally weighing about 40-60 kg, this type of police dog, whether it is explosiveness, sensitivity or endurance are very strong.
2. Strong obedience
Want to become a police dog, obedience discipline is put first, police dogs are generally mainly engaged in arrest, drug enforcement, tracking, search and rescue and other dangerous tasks, many times the difficulty of the task is like walking a tightrope, so the police dog must have super obedience, so that it can successfully complete the task and ensure their own safety.
3. Be bold
Police dogs need to be at the forefront of the line at all times when performing their tasks, and they will often encounter some vicious gangsters or very dangerous environments, so they must be bold and brave if they want to become police dogs.
4. High IQ
Police dogs with a high IQ are easy to train and have a low error rate when performing tasks. Among the common police dogs, the Rottweiler ranks 9th in the IQ ranking of dogs, Demu ranks 3rd, and Labrador ranks 7th. Therefore, if you want to become a police dog, you also need a certain IQ. Some people may wonder, why not use bian mu who ranks 1st in IQ? In fact, too high IQ is not necessarily a good thing, the IQ of police dogs is too high to have the ability to think independently, which will affect obedience to a certain extent.
Are hyenas suitable as police dogs?
Hyenas are very strong in combat, daring to provoke lions and single out leopards, which is enough to see how brave they are. And hyenas have a very high IQ, they have a unique "language system" in their population to communicate, and the Asian Animal Foundation has tested the IQ of tigers, leopards, and hyenas, and found that hyenas have a higher IQ than the two.
Although hyenas meet the conditions 1, 3, and 4 of police dogs, because of Article 2 obedience, hyenas cannot become police dogs. Hyenas have never been domesticated by humans, and although attempts have been made in Africa to domesticate hyenas, they have all failed. Some people raise hyenas from an early age, hyenas grow up to bite people uncontrollably, and domesticants are forced to put braces on hyenas.
Dogs are domesticated from wolves by humans and are the only carnivores that humans have successfully domesticated. Some early wolves would move in human living areas, foraging for leftovers discarded by humans. In the long run, the wolf's saliva active amylase mutation allowed it to adapt to human food, giving humans the opportunity to give them food, so that wolves and humans had more communication. However, hyenas have not been close to humans, they only eat meat, so there is basically no intersection with humans, and pure carnivorous animals are difficult to domesticate, so hyenas have not been domesticated. Even domestication has not been completed, and it is impossible to become a police dog to work for humans.
Another important reason why hyenas cannot become police dogs is in their number. The number of dogs that are generally used as police dogs is very large, which is convenient for breeding. But hyenas are different, they are protected animals and are very few in number. Protected animals cannot be used as police dogs for promotion. Moreover, hyenas generally live in tropical Africa, and if they are placed in temperate or cold zones, it may cause them to be unsuitable in climate.
In summary, although the hyena is very good in all aspects of the indicators, but because of the obedience, number and living habits of the reasons, it is not possible to become a police dog.