There is a very fierce and aggressive animal in Africa, every time it goes out in groups, at least three or five, at most dozens of a large group of people go out to hunt, yes, the second brother of Africa, spotted hyenas! The legendary extraction expert. The second brother can be said to be a pure carnivore, good at group fighting when hunting, and rarely acts alone.
In the African savannah, spotted hyenas even dare to grab food with lions to eat, how can such a ferocious beast be tamed by Africans? How did the "second brother of Africa" who ran rampant in the African savannah become the pet of Africans? Come and go, pay attention to passers-by, listen to guests!
The local tycoons in the Middle East train tigers, lions, and leopards to behave like cats, the Russian fighting people raise bears like dogs, and the old iron in Inner Mongolia, Tibet, raises wolves as dogs, but these are just one case! Just thinking about it, these animals know how scary they are, at least passers-by think it's typical survivor bias. So let's look at Africans, training spotted hyenas in this craft, but it is ancestral! It is not like some marketing numbers on the Internet say, hyenas see Africans and they are angry, which is a typical rumor to spread false rumors!
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Why is the craft of training hyenas ancestral? Spotted hyenas and humans have a long history of interaction, as early as the late Paleolithic period, humans have paintings and carvings of spotted hyenas. For example, the famous Xiaowei Cave, 32,000 to 36,000 years ago, in the cave murals, there are various animals painted by Paleolithic humans, including spotted hyenas. In the ancient Egyptian period, the ancient Egyptians began to domesticate spotted hyenas, of course, at that time, it was not used to see the spotted hyena to see the nursing home, but like pigs, as a source of meat.
Then in modern times, in the 18th century, a small city in eastern Ethiopia, Harel. The town not only had to resist the invasion of war, but also had to guard against the hyenas around it at all times, and at that time there was often news that hyenas hurt people's lives. So the people in the city threw meat out, thinking that if these hyenas finished eating the meat, they would not hurt anyone. The effect was remarkable, and in the following hundred years, there were almost no incidents of hyena attacks on humans, and feeding hyenas became a daily routine for city dwellers.
In the 1960s, some people in the city began to take the initiative to raise spotted hyenas, and the amazing thing is that this spotted hyena is still a bit obedient! Since then, the profession of "hyena man" has become popular and gradually become a local tradition, but the profession of "hyena man" has also begun to slowly become lonely, after all, no one wants to be with wild animals all day, and there are not many people now. Some hyenas blown out of the marketing trumpet have been domesticated, and when they are pets, they are afraid of seeing Africans.
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Now in Africa, people with hyenas come out to make a living, some so-called "bards". They will use violence to tame animals, such as monkeys, pythons, spotted hyenas, etc., and then walk the streets to sell some homemade herbs. And these tamers, too, have been passed down from generation to generation, with a more systematic method of taming beasts, note that whether it is the Harels or these "bards", they are tamed through feeding and violence, not domesticated! Just like the lions and tigers in the zoo, they are all tamed, not domesticated.
Spotted hyenas cannot be domesticated, tens of thousands of years have come, wolves have been domesticated into dogs, if they could be domesticated, they would have been domesticated long ago! Although hyenas look like dogs and have dogs in their names, hyenas and dogs are not even relatives biologically, hyenas belong to the cat suborder, and are more closely related to big cats such as lions and leopards. You know, dogs, canines are many omnivores, and cats, can all eat meat! This is especially true for spotted hyenas, who have previously made a video about spotted hyenas, whose posterior molars can even grind their bones into slag. Domesticating spotted hyenas is far more difficult than domesticating wolves!
Moreover, humans have been raising cats for a long time, and even our domestic cats have not been completely domesticated and still maintain a great deal of independence. In addition, hyenas themselves are one of the most socially specific carnivores, a group is usually a female as the leader, and the class division is also very clear, the female leader, other females, then cubs, and finally males. Therefore, a population can maintain such complex social relations, which is enough to prove that the IQ of hyenas is not low, and the thinking mode is more complex, so they will not be completely dependent on their owners for life, or even unwilling to their existing positions, so as to turn their heads and attack their masters.
We have to domesticate the wolf, select the most obedient and loved ones from generation to generation, and then continue this behavior. It is even more difficult to domesticate spotted hyenas! Domesticated males, males have no status! Domesticated mothers, stallions, breeding cattle, breeding pigs, used to artificially breed offspring, where is the use of mothers? A male can be paired many times to artificially breed offspring, but what about a female? The entire hyena cannot give birth to enough 50 in its lifetime, losing the meaning of domestication and breeding.
Even if humans can domesticate spotted hyenas, what are they used for, caregivers? Spotted hyenas can eat 15 kilograms of food with belts and meat at a time, and are good at running animals, with an average speed of 40-50 km/h and a maximum of 60 km/h. Out for a hyena walk? Therefore, the domestication of spotted hyenas, the fear of Africans and so on, are all rumors! Some national folk customs and culture may give rise to some animal trainers to train some beasts to support their families, respect is good, there is no need to rumor.
Well, here we are today, pay attention to the passers-by, have heard the guests say, we will see you next time!