Hi all. I have stirred some of you by my previous topic about female superiority. Sorry about that, but I did hope the get a broad answer on that, and I did.....KnotyBusiness mentioned in his reply that Hyenas are Hermaphrodies, and that struck me. So I had to make research on thatone. I did not search in Google as someone sugested here becouse I'm member in www.YouTube.com So I punched the word, Hyena, and I had several results. I'm challenging enyone here who is feeling offended to do the same and see what is happening out there in the natural animal kingdom. See it on videos,, many of them,, lionesses and hyenas, bufalos, zebras, warthogs ect. Now please ! pay attention ! I WILL DESCRIBE WHAT I SAW, BUT IF YOU ARE A SOFT HEARTED PERSON DO NOT READ THIS. Go and forget about it. We are all animal lovers right ? The scince has copied the Radar of the Bats, the cross section of the wing so that the jet jumbos are more effective. We know that some insects are organized and have a Queen, workers and soldiers. So do we. But what about some cruel hunting practices? Here is what I saw in the first video, how a single Hyena brought down a wild beast male. Wild beast is the size of a bufalo but a bit lighter in body weight. A single hyena grabbed his testicles, and would not let go. No matter how the bull jumped, the Hyena jush hang on the testicles. Than finaly the testcles were separated from the male beast and the Hyena was devouring them greedily.Than the Hyena returned imediately to get more, Some skinn was still hangingwhere the testicles were torn of. So the Hyena managed to grabb that skinn and The bull jumped again, until the skinn was torn of again. Now that skinn was holding the penis of the bull, now the penis was hangind down fully exposed and unprotected. Again the hyene was devouring the skinn in few seconds and returned for more. The bull was trying to face the hyena all the times, but the Hyena managed to grabb the naked penis. She did not grabb it at the tip, but right at the base, and again the bull was jumping in agony, but the hyena would not let go. Than finaly she got the bull down. One single hyena versus such huge beast just becouse his weak spot,, the genitalia. Than after the first video, there are offering few differend animals hunting practices. All, or most are female hunters like hyenas or lionesses hunting male animals, and both beasts hyena and lioness having same principals , hunting males , and getting them by theyr testicles. Here is what I saw about 3 lionesses taking a wild pig or warthog. Thisone I realy can not understand, and I'm asking for help. Please someone explain it to me why was a lioness licking the warthogs penis, from the bottum of the shaft right to the tip ehyle other lioness was holding the hog by the trouth. Yes she was licking the shaft or the penis several times as the hog was squeeling and allife. Did the hog have some discharge as the lioness was eating his testicles before? I'm buffled ! I mean it realy looks paradox, becouse one lioness was holding the hog by the trouth, and the other lioness layed down next to the hog,, turned him on his back with her paw, and than like lowishly started chewing on his balls. I would much appresiate if someone would look at the videos and make a comment on that. I must say that some videos are edited, And the genital consuming lionesses, chewing on zebras testicles and penises, are edited out. Ok I hope that I did not create a controversy again. I hope that someone will explain it better that I did, cheers.
zennie

You should post links, because I can't seem to find these videos. The whole thing seems a bit odd though...

She can't post links until 100 posts. I enjoy watching and learning about lions and their behavior, so I watch alot of youtube and myspace vids on the subject.

I think what is happening here is that since youtube and other video outlets have opened up, it's given opportunity for people to share their safari vids and also for some of the professional videogragphers to post some of their stuff. These videos are NOT censored or edited like the "disneyfied" vids you see from Nat'l Geographic or Animal Planet. What you get is predation clear and simple. No super slo-mo, no dramatic music, and.....no editing of "offensive" material.

The subject zennie refers to is popping up on other, non-zoo related boards as well. That is, lions and hyenas and their propensity for gobbling up the genitals of their still living prey. It isn't exactly what you were taught in school about lions now is it?

Anyway, here are a few links if anyone is interested. Please don't watch any of these if it upsets you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51pNHyBSFoI

http://www.wildcast.net/ (just search any of his vids with lions....he's a great filmaker)

http://vidsearch.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...&videoid=372280

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5OweMjFrIs

Sounds like a ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTER fry EH

OOOOOOOOh equineslurp, thank you very, very much. But I have forgoten to state that the video I was describing was to be found by typing the words,,solo hyena kills wildbeast,, in the address bar at the ,,www.youtube.com..From there they will give you options to see more.......

Nothing unusual. the concentration of veins and arterial transfers in the genital region, combined with the general lack of defenses, make it a great place to attack. one or two mildly risky attacks, and your prey bleeds out in 10 minutes or so. with declining prides and pack sizes, it makes sense that you'd see it more often.

That all makes very good sense. The predators are just being effecient I suppose. But as a guy when you see the testicles being ravaged like that it's like :blink: And as Zennie says in her posts, lions espescially seem to delight in attacking that portion of the anatomy.....maybe they just taste good....who knows?

well its just for the purpose of efficiency. When you're chasing an animal from behind, issues about exsanguination aside, they are easy to see and grab. And when starting to devour, they are very proteinaceous and easy to get to. Typically what gets eaten furst at succulent organs like the testes. Muscle meat comes second ets.

Dam
Neutering in a nother thred

OUCH

Bulls beware

R

i tend to agree with everyone else. Somehow i think it's just going for the dangly bits and not an outcry by the female animal populous against the dominance of the male species.

my two cents :lol:

I tend to agree, especially after watching some of the videos, it just looks like they are going for the easiest thing to grab onto... If they always went for the ears I wouldn't suspect they didn't want the pray to hear them eat it, I would come to the same conclusion as above. But its an interesting theory, and one thing I did like learning was that it has been censored by other mediums - I mean I understand their reasoning, but its still interesting.

Now that was different, I guess that in the wild they don't seem to think about what they are grabbing, only that it is easy to eat and don't taste to bad....

Moral of the story, don't get eaten by a pack of lions while in the nude.....

Ausdog, please, you forget what kind of board you are on! I don't doubt that some members here would thoroughly enjoy, and may even fantasize about being eaten by a pride of female lionesses while totally nude! :P :P

Intresting, but odd. In the wild they don't seem to be afraid of grabbing each other in private places :P

Get out of my head :D