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Eternal Foes: The world's longest ongoing war

IDF
13-06-2007, 21:58
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?
Nodinia
13-06-2007, 22:03
The lions mane is true metal, yet the hyena is a hard core fucker....I am thus torn.
Philosopy
13-06-2007, 22:04
The lion. The proud king, rather than the scrawny little scavenger.
Ifreann
13-06-2007, 22:04
Lions are noted for being lazy and having lots of sex. Fuck hyenas.
Drunk commies deleted
13-06-2007, 22:06
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.
Honourable Angels
13-06-2007, 22:07
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!
Zarakon
13-06-2007, 22:07
Hyenas...Sure, they might be disgusting, but they apparently tell great jokes...They're laughing all the time...
Philosopy
13-06-2007, 22:12
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?
Ghost Tigers Rise
13-06-2007, 22:16
Hyenas... for if there is any hope at all, it lies with the proles...
Callisdrun
13-06-2007, 22:18
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).
Central Ecotopia
13-06-2007, 22:23
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.
Callisdrun
13-06-2007, 23:01
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.
Bloody Dennis
13-06-2007, 23:46
Lion = feline
Hyena = canine
I prefer kitty cats
Heretichia
14-06-2007, 00:03
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.
Hydesland
14-06-2007, 00:08
Hyenas are blatently high.
1010102
14-06-2007, 00:13
well the hyenas is nature's asshole. as seen here (http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBHZbDPfcE)
New Manvir
14-06-2007, 00:28
Everyone knows Hyenas are cowardly wusses

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Movies-50/The-Lion-King.jpg
Ghost Tigers Rise
14-06-2007, 00:46
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?
IDF
14-06-2007, 01:12
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.
Kahn The Magnificent
14-06-2007, 02:41
(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
Secret aj man
14-06-2007, 03:45
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
Widferand
14-06-2007, 03:49
I vote for whichever one doesn't try to eat me.
Insert Quip Here
14-06-2007, 04:10
Insert Quip Here's national animal is the hyena, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the haha.
Bodies Without Organs
14-06-2007, 04:11
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.
Township 01
14-06-2007, 04:14
The question is moot because everyone in the defense industry knows that the noble meerkat will win out in the end.
Markeliopia
14-06-2007, 05:52
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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Europa Maxima
14-06-2007, 05:57
I hate canines - even matriarchal ones. Now felines on the other hand I love - especially ones with female huntresses. :)
IDF
14-06-2007, 06:23
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.
Europa Maxima
14-06-2007, 06:24
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
IDF
14-06-2007, 06:27
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.
Andaras Prime
14-06-2007, 06:45
I think the war between the mongoose and the cobra is more important.
Soviet Haaregrad
14-06-2007, 07:16
African Hunting Dogs ftw!

Spotted hyenas in number 2.
Allanea
14-06-2007, 09:12
Lions.
Dododecapod
14-06-2007, 09:28
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.
The Phoenix Milita
14-06-2007, 10:09
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.
Neo Undelia
14-06-2007, 10:11
Apparently Bears pwn the lot of them.
Allanea
14-06-2007, 10:13
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.
The Phoenix Milita
14-06-2007, 10:23
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)
Callisdrun
14-06-2007, 12:42
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.
Kryozerkia
14-06-2007, 13:10
Hyenas are blatently high.

They are now my favourite animal. :)
The Phoenix Milita
14-06-2007, 14:31
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.
Europa Maxima
14-06-2007, 17:22
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. :)
The Treacle Mine Road
14-06-2007, 18:06
I think the war between the mongoose and the cobra is more important.

Has anyone seen a nature film where the mongoose loses?
Mirkai
14-06-2007, 18:08
They're both sexy.
Europa Maxima
14-06-2007, 18:10
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?
Peepelonia
14-06-2007, 19:53
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: