Can A Hyena Feature In Your List of Favourite Pets?

An African Hyena in the world – regarded as one of the most efficient scavengers, stories are told that do not cast this fascinating animal in good light.

If someone asked you what kind of wild animal you would like to have as a pet, most of us would say a lion, tiger, leopard or a wolf. Despite the fact that, these animals, would tear you to bits given the chance. The hyena would not make the top 100 on that list unless the person making a choice is a weirdo. Why is the hyena so despised?

We all at some point wondered why the hyena is slimy, smelly, dirty, a bully and eats mostly dead things. Maybe you haven’t, I have, given that I don’t have a social life. But seriously, I bet, given the choice and half a brain the hyena would not choose this lifestyle or would it?

If the hyena was a male lion, strong and majestic, it would probably have to fight for territory with its rival alpha males. Or maybe if he was a leopard, he would have to live a life of solitude away from the cool cats so to speak. Or perhaps a cheetah, he would be the fastest animal on the planet but without any strength.

But since he is a hyena, he is invisible as a food source. No animal would dare hunt a hyena for food because of that very lifestyle. The hyena is perfectly safe from predators unless it pisses of the king of the jungle. But as statistics have it, if it was a fare fight between the lion and the hyena, only biting allowed, the hyena would win the fight hands down. “Ding! Ding! The hyena takes round one, two and three.”

Secondly, the hyena does not have to hunt, unless the food source is scarce, all it has to do is gather a mob of hungry friends and challenge the other carnivores for their hard earned kills. To him this is easier than chasing a 500lbs zebra in the hot sun. If you think of it from this perspective, the hyena is more a master mind than the famous hare as the story books put it.

As much as we would like to write off the hyena, he’s clearly one of the brightest animals in the wild. Taking the role of a no body so as to slowly sneak his way into the most private places of the animal kingdom; right by the kings table and although not invited, dine with him. No wonder the hyena spends most of his time laughing at the other animals. He even has the most sophisticated species (human beings) fooled.

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