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bogleech:

real-live-human:

matchavanillalatte:

matchavanillalatte:

we should domesticate the hyena

Me and my bestie the robust bone crunching hyena

an excuse to share one of my favourite parts of the spotted hyena wikipedia page

Although easily tamed, spotted hyenas are exceedingly difficult to house train,[176] and can be destructive; a captive, otherwise perfectly tame, specimen in the Tower of London managed to tear an 8-foot (2.4 m) long plank nailed to its recently repaired enclosure floor with no apparent effort.[177] During the research leading to the composition of his monograph The Spotted Hyena: A Study of Predation and Social Behavior, Hans Kruuk kept a tame hyena he named Solomon.[106] Kruuk found Solomon's company so congenial, he would have kept him, but Solomon had an insatiable taste for "cheese in the bar of the tourist lounge and bacon off the Chief Park Warden's breakfast table", and no door could hold him back, so Solomon was obliged to live out his days in the Edinburgh Zoo.[178]ALT

So you’re saying hyenas are fully befriendable but just too powerful for human society to contain or be trusted with. That if they feel like going outside they will not wait like a dog for a human to assist them, but will simply bite your house open.

I gotta look something up.

Oh, I see.


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