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Apr. 12th, 2014 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjornwilde So I am reading Hyena Nights and Kalahari Days to better understand Andrea and her hyena side. Plus, I just love hyenas and would like to know more about them. I'm only twenty pages in and I've already learned new things!
I already knew they were more closely related to cats than dogs, with civets and genets genets being their closest relative. There are also only four living species of hyena; three true hyenas (brown, striped, and spotted) and the aardwolf. They apparently evolved 10 millions years ago, filling the same niche that true canidae did in what would become North America, that is until the dogs crossed the Bering Strait and moved in on their territory. There was also a hyena the size of a cow at one point!
I guess this is a warning that I will be leaving notes in future posts as I read further.
I already knew they were more closely related to cats than dogs, with civets and genets genets being their closest relative. There are also only four living species of hyena; three true hyenas (brown, striped, and spotted) and the aardwolf. They apparently evolved 10 millions years ago, filling the same niche that true canidae did in what would become North America, that is until the dogs crossed the Bering Strait and moved in on their territory. There was also a hyena the size of a cow at one point!
I guess this is a warning that I will be leaving notes in future posts as I read further.
