Different animals have their own unique ways of hunting, and their hunting style is the most suitable for themselves. Large-size predators like lions and tigers can naturally exclude the influence of body size to a certain extent, and can single-handedly kill herbivores larger than their own. Carnivores are not all as large as lions and tigers, and hyenas that are slightly larger than dogs are not.
Therefore, hyenas have mastered a more efficient and cruel way to obtain food in the course of evolution, they do not mind eating rotten food, they will also unite and cooperate to take food from the mouth of the beast, and they will also cruelly pull out their anuses, as big as bison and rhinoceros, and they will be instantly seated on the ground by this, and then cannibalized by hyenas, and finally the hyenas will rise up and attack and snatch food from the mouth of the lion. In order to survive, hyenas become very cruel.
Hyenas still have several subspecies, with slight differences in size and coat color, but similar temperaments, which are the skills they rely on for survival. Hyenas are found on the African continent and in some desert areas of West Asia because of their relatively efficient way of obtaining energy, relative to lions and tigers, and although the number of human activities has decreased, there is no risk of extinction.
Often look at the animal world knows that the mammals in the beast of prey flexible limbs, bite force is also very strong, the upper limb flexibility can make the beast in the pursuit of prey by the hind limbs support the forelimb stretch instantly pounce on the prey; the bite force is strong so that the beast can bite through the skin and muscle tissue of the prey, and then hold the prey with claws, hang on the body of the prey with teeth, so that sooner or later the physical strength of the prey will be exhausted, if it is to bite the neck and other important parts, the prey will also lose its combat effectiveness quickly because of breathing difficulties and a large amount of blood loss.
In terms of the flexibility of the forelimbs, although hyenas are not as flexible as lions, tigers and bears, they can still hunt with flexible forelimbs, and the bite force of hyenas is quite excellent, their size is not large, but because of the strong bite force, they can instantly cut off the tissues and organs of the prey, which can also make the prey lose the ability to resist quickly. At the same time, they will also nibble the meat from their prey alive and then eat it on the spot.
This approach makes hyenas more widely sourced and the ways in which food is obtained are more diverse. The African grassland is dominated by grass and shrubs, and such an environment is very beneficial to the running of organisms, because the shrubs are sparse and the grass is relatively soft, so there are many species that run fast in Africa; and the vegetation in Africa is luxuriant, which leads to many species of african grasslands, and the survival competition of organisms makes it easier for large-sized animals to survive, so there are many large-sized herbivores in Africa, such as elephants, giraffes, rhinos, hippos, etc.
Unlike lions and tigers, hyenas are not like lions and tigers, when they face species such as bison and rhinos, the difference in individual strength is too large, if a hyena challenges the bison, it is easy to be trampled to death, and their strength and mouth size are difficult to quickly cut the throat of large herbivores. This makes it difficult for hyenas to prey, so they learn to eat scavenger, rotten food and normal meat difference is in smell, traits, but can also provide sufficient nutrition for organisms, hyenas in the process of scavenging exercise a strong stomach, can eat scavenging without being invaded by pathogenic microorganisms.
However, there are many scavengers on the grasslands, not to mention that there are many microorganisms that can decompose the remains of organisms, and it is difficult to maintain a large population of hyenas by scavenger alone, and the size of the hyena itself is relatively large, so they have learned to take food from the mouths of beasts of prey. When the beast was still tired when it had just caught its prey, the hyena swarmed up, causing the lions to find it difficult to cope with the loss of prey and escape, and the hyena took the opportunity to mix food.
Hyenas also had to hunt alone. As mentioned earlier, African animals either run fast or are large, and hyenas are not fast enough, so hyenas have another move. Although herbivores are strong muscles, but the abdomen, anus, scrotum and other places are very weak, hyenas strong bite force to deal with these structures is very convenient, a bite can bite the herbivores scrotum, and this way makes the herbivores injured, they will be due to pain stress or excessive blood loss and quickly fall down.
Pulling out the anus is just a form, hyenas will also nibble alive, when chasing prey, directly from the animal to bite a piece of meat to swallow on the spot, bite a piece of meat to hunt the wasted energy to replenish it, bite down two bites and earn. Herbivores, after severe injury, even if they escape, will be invaded by pathogenic microorganisms in The warmer climate of Africa, which will cause them to die faster, and rot after death will become food for hyenas.
Hyenas are full of wisdom in their way of living, their size speed is not dominant, but they can rely on flexible food access to ensure energy needs, and this ability makes hyenas become the second brother of Africa, many animals will avoid them when they encounter them. Hyenas also have habits that limit their rapid growth, the hyena population is dominated by females, and generally only the female leader of the hyena group can have children, and other females need their consent to give birth.
For hyenas, where there is no concept of cruelty, we humans feel that cruelty is actually because of the development of civilization, humans no longer need so frequent and a large number of hunting after settling down, many people have not even seen the killing of chickens, but we have a wealth of products. But hyenas, they can only rely on brute force or clever scavenger to solve the problem of food, even if they nibble the meat from the prey alive, it is only to obtain energy, and the sadistic behavior in humans is completely different.