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No this isn't about any war involving humans. This is the much documented ongoing battle between lions and hyenas.

Which do you like better? Lions or hyenas?

The lions mane is true metal, yet the hyena is a hard core fucker....I am thus torn.

The lion. The proud king, rather than the scrawny little scavenger.

Lions are noted for being lazy and having lots of sex. Fuck hyenas.

The lion. The proud king, rather than the scrawny little scavenger.

Lions scavenge as much as hyenas do. To my knowledge hyenas don't go around killing their cubs. Male lions will kill off all the existing cubs when they take over a pride to bring the females into heat faster. Hyenas win for better parenting skills.

Can we add another category, because my penis has been at war with all of them for the same amount of time

:p

Ill give a :fluffle: to whoever goes WTF to this post!

Hyenas...Sure, they might be disgusting, but they apparently tell great jokes...They're laughing all the time...

Lions scavenge as much as hyenas do. To my knowledge hyenas don't go around killing their cubs. Male lions will kill off all the existing cubs when they take over a pride to bring the females into heat faster. Hyenas win for better parenting skills.

Who wants to be a good parent when you look like you haven't eaten in a month?

Hyenas... for if there is any hope at all, it lies with the proles...

The lion. The proud king, rather than the scrawny little scavenger.

Except that hyenas actually have been found to hunt as much as female lions do (as the Males generally don't take part in that). Any carnivore will scavenge if fresh kills are available. Why? Because something that's already dead can't fight back. Think about it, if a Lion breaks her leg in a hunting misadventure, she's fucked.

Anyway, Hyenas are badass motherfuckers. Also, they must be funny. Maybe they keep laughing at the fact that they are total freaks (the female's clitoris is so long that early observers thought it was a penis and that hyenas were hermaphrodites. What a bunch of freaks).

The lion. The proud king, rather than the scrawny little scavenger.

Actually, the lions are the scavengers. Recent studies have shown that the vast majority of those "dawn kills" are actually accomplished by hyenas, who are bullied away from the kill by lions, who then have to skulk around waiting for their chance to get back in.

Actually, the lions are the scavengers. Recent studies have shown that the vast majority of those "dawn kills" are actually accomplished by hyenas, who are bullied away from the kill by lions, who then have to skulk around waiting for their chance to get back in.

And hence the never ending hostilities between the two species.

Lion = feline
Hyena = canine
I prefer kitty cats

Lion = feline
Hyena = canine
I prefer kitty cats

Umm... actually, hyenas arn't canine, they are their own family, more related to mongooses and and meerkats. Check wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena) for the full deal.

Hyenas are blatently high.

well the hyenas is nature's asshole. as seen here (http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBHZbDPfcE)

Everyone knows Hyenas are cowardly wusses

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Movies-50/The-Lion-King.jpg

well the hyenas is nature's asshole. as seen here (http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBHZbDPfcE)

Really? The hypertext transfer protocol was invented by hyenas? And they're assholes for doing it?

Lion = feline
Hyena = canine
I prefer kitty cats

Hyenas are closer to cats than they are to dogs.

They are in the same suborder with cats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feliformia

You would have to go up to Order to find the closest relationship with dogs and hyenas.

(the female's clitoris is so long that early observers thought it was a penis and that hyenas were hermaphrodites. What a bunch of freaks).

That is one little tidbit about hyenas that I did NOT need to know. But yeah, I still have to go with hyenas. That just makes them that much more cool. :D

No this isn't about any war involving humans. This is the much documented ongoing battle between lions and hyenas.

Which do you like better? Lions or hyenas?

i cant stand hyenas.they give me the creeps.
lions i like,i use to work with them,pretty cool animals...tigers are neat but very solitary,and one tried to kill me once..so meh

I vote for whichever one doesn't try to eat me.

Insert Quip Here's national animal is the hyena, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the haha.

Anyway, Hyenas are badass motherfuckers. Also, they must be funny. Maybe they keep laughing at the fact that they are total freaks (the female's clitoris is so long that early observers thought it was a penis and that hyenas were hermaphrodites. What a bunch of freaks).

It heartens me that I was not the first to consider mentioning this.

The question is moot because everyone in the defense industry knows that the noble meerkat will win out in the end.

Can we add another category, because my penis has been at war with all of them for the same amount of time

:p

Ill give a :fluffle: to whoever goes WTF to this post!

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I hate canines - even matriarchal ones. Now felines on the other hand I love - especially ones with female huntresses. :)

I hate canines - even matriarchal ones. Now felines on the other hand I love - especially ones with female huntresses. :)

Hyenas aren't canines. They aren't in the correct family or even sub-order.

Hyenas are more closely related to felines (see lions) than they are to any dogs. The hyena is in the same family as the meerkat.

Hyenas aren't canines. They aren't in the correct family or even sub-order.

Hyenas are more closely related to felines (see lions) than they are to any dogs. The hyena is in the same family as the meerkat.
Wasn't aware - but I still like lions more. :p

Wasn't aware - but I still like lions more. :p

I'm with you in terms of liking lions more. I was just pointing out the fact for everyone's benefit.

I can see why people would mistake hyenas for canines as on the surface they appear to share some physical attributes. I was just making didn't buy into the common misbelief.

I think the war between the mongoose and the cobra is more important.

African Hunting Dogs ftw!

Spotted hyenas in number 2.

Lions.

I once helped kill a Lion. (No, I'm not a poacher. The old male had gone rogue and killed a couple of local children). Even though I have great respect for Hyenas (how can you not like a beast capable of biting through iron bars?), I prefer Lions. They're cleaner, larger, stronger and prettier. The old guy, even in death, was still magnificent.

There is no war between lions and hyenas. There is completion for food, but it never gets beyond that.
Only ants and humans go to war.

Apparently Bears pwn the lot of them.

There is no war between lions and hyenas. There is completion for food, but it never gets beyond that.
Only ants and humans go to war.

I think monkeys of certain species do that too.

again they may use weapons or put up a defense as a family group but they don't go to war.


"Ants are the only animals other than humans that carry on organized warfare, usually for the capture of slaves."

-Encyclopædia Britannica (http://www.britannica.com/oscar/print?articleId=272758&fullArticle=true&tocId=195984)

There is no war between lions and hyenas. There is completion for food, but it never gets beyond that.
Only ants and humans go to war.

Bullshit. Chimps also do so. As do wolves and lions. Chimpanzees even commit genocide, systematically killing members of rival tribes.

Hell, any idiot who has even watched animal planet knows that Meerkats get some pretty intense intergroup hostilities raging.

Hyenas are blatently high.

They are now my favourite animal. :)

Bullshit. Chimps also do so. As do wolves and lions. Chimpanzees even commit genocide, systematically killing members of rival tribes.

Hell, any idiot who has even watched animal planet knows that Meerkats get some pretty intense intergroup hostilities raging.

Sorry just because you think it doesn't make it so. They don't have organized warfare, like I said it can be explained otherwise. Gang violence doesn't = warfare.

Apparently Bears pwn the lot of them.
And tigers pwn bears. They have the necessary speed, weight and leaping power to tear into a bear's throat when it rises up and topple it over. There's always the possibility that the giant pussy cat could miscalculate and end up dead, but they're not a species prone to failure. Felines are built to kill creatures bigger than themselves (the now extinct Javan tiger could kill prey ten times larger than itself). And then of course there are the rare ligers. :)

I think the war between the mongoose and the cobra is more important.

Has anyone seen a nature film where the mongoose loses?

They're both sexy.

I think the war between the mongoose and the cobra is more important.
I've not paid attention to this one - which species of cobra exactly?

Well I do like it that Lions make the wimmin do all the work, by hyhenas do work well as a team.

So I'm gonna go for........ fuck it Lions. Make all the wimmin do the work, I'm too lazy!:eek: