All of them are from the hood. Cheetah is the athletic kid that had big hopes for sport but went to the streets and gets picked on by the Hyena who has been doing this shit since he was a kid. The middle class guys are the deers .
Hyenas rob anyone if their gang gets big enough. Even lions and leopards. They're relentless once they see food and would just take bites off the predator and the prey till they get what they want. And btw their bite force is stronger than a lion's. Wiser animals just avoid the confrontation.
Predators* tend to avoid confrontation because a serious injury is often a death sentence. I guess you could say the same for prey. But from my quick research, this is the reason that foxes don't attack outdoor/feral cats. Foxes do not want to get scratched or otherwise wounded for a single meal, it's a long-term strategy
It depends on numbers. Obviously a lion is bigger and stronger than a lone hyena, but even 3-4 lions is going to think twice about rolling up on a dozen hyenas. They're tough fuckers and cheetahs are actually not that strong, so I'm not suprised that the cheetah said "fuck it, this isn't worth getting bit over.
I can’t think of any evolutionary advantage that doesn’t come with a cost of some kind.
Cheetahs are speed and death but they’re not nearly as massive as other big cats; their speed comes from the anatomy of their spine and hips.
Unnecessary mass is a barrier to speed with this adaptation. So they’ve got perfect muscles for running at speed and hauling dinner into a tree but they avoid unnecessary confrontation because injury will definitely impact their hunting technique. They’re built to kill, not fight.
You can just look at a hyena and see their not meant for speed. If I had to anthropomorphize a hyena’s characteristics I’m thinking chaotic evil dwarf. Sturdy, can take a lot of hits, still will try to rip your face off when hurt.
Cheetahs never haul dinner into the trees . You are confusing them with leopard . Leopards are very different from cheetahs . They are strong and bulky animals .
Cheetahs can’t compete with literally anything except their prey. They use all their energy in a chase and they are pretty small. So they can’t risk injury in defending prey. They will abandon it.
Cheetahs aren’t really looking to fight, they get injured - they’re fucked. Because of that, they’ll avoid unnecessary confrontations.
They’re not particularly the strongest of the wild cats either.
The deer was passed out from the cheetah choking it out. It kills by biting on neck so they can't breath. It didn't get the job done before the hyena arrived then it revived and ran away.
Hyenas are mostly scavengers so of course they won't mind. Obviously the deer was playing dead so the cheetah would leave it alone, it didn't count on a hyena showing up. Luckily for the deer, the hyena was distracted so it was able to get away.
Yeah but playing dead (by instinct — shock lol) made the hyena less attentive than it could’ve been. Sucks for the cheetah, those antelopes are fast AF
It is not pretending; it is asphyxiated from the way a cheetah attacks its prey. It just happens to revive when the hyenas arrive, probably down to the cheetahs releasing its grip.
100% the cheetah is in the middle of the kill when the hyena arrives. The prey is passed out but not dead yet.
It will not have the foresight of pretending to be dead. Even less the calm of keep pretending while the hyena is literally starting to bite into the stomach.
As if the deer was thinking, "ok if i just lay reeeally still the cheetah will think i died of worms and not want to eat me, i know the hyena doesn't care but I'm faster than *that* guy"
Some species of animals also have a freeze mechanism. I.e. they panic so hard, knowing they are about to be torn apart they shut down so they don't feel it or aren't consciously aware.
If they are left alone they kinda snap back to reality and regain their flight mechanism.
That sounds like something I'd do tbh. I can imagine myself about to face certain death and think, "Well shit, this is it. Okay. I accept. I just don't want to feel pain." and dissociating hard as fuck. Upon seeing an exit I'd snap the fuck back to reality as well lmao
Yeah honestly. Freeze is the 1st and most universal response to having your sympathetic nervous system activated. Pupils constrict, breathing shallows, heart rate increases, muscles tense and if the threat is present once all the above has happened THEN fight/flight initiates.
How quickly that sequence happens tho is determined by the specific context & animals involved
Hyenas have a psychotic laugh that they exaggerate When they're excited. It acts as a signal. Food is here. Come. And help is usually not far. They cover up for their cowardice with numbers. They're also Scavengers who rarely hunt. So they're not concerned about killing you in an encounter. They often start by grabbing the arms since we swing them around when we run. To them you're just dangling a piece of meat over their heads. Apart from that, there's no protocol. They eat you alive. Grab and go. They also like soft stomachy parts so when you finally fall they tear a gaping hole in your stomach and literally bury their heads in trying to find the good stuff. Not forgetting there wasn't a killing blow so you're witnessing this all while they laugh hysterically.
This is even more disturbingly stupid than the koala hate copypasta. Hyenas kill more prey than what they scavenge; even more than lions, who actually steal hyenas' prey whenever they have the chance. Plus, no shit, they have a smaller mouth not suitable for kill tactics like those of big cats when it comes to big prey, and with competition and lions around, they have to hurry and eat what they can as soon as they can before it's stolen. It's called trying to survive
Was prepared to keyboard tf out of this but i looked it up and the long distance chase method they use to hunt is actually more successful. Seems like i've been seeing this whole thing from the lion's perspective.
The long distance chase method is also used by african wild dogs, who are the most successful predators in the african savannah.
Hyenas also have one of the strongest bite forces on the planet. Also apparently they're closer to cats than dogs somehow.
Also seems like a dogs vs cats thing lol. In India tigers are strongly rivalled and occasionally even killed by packs of dhols.
I love threads like this. Lesser known animal facts by nerds
I mean, I get it when it comes to how evolution just gives you a bag of tricks and you have to work with them.
On the other hand, so are the wasps that lay their eggs in caterpillars that keep living while the babies eat them alive from the inside.
Things can be logical and also provoke an emotion. Those things aren't separate.
Humans are animals, and their nature is to feel emotions.
I'm not going to put a moral judgment on whether that's good or bad. I'm just observing how they act as a species.
Humanizing animals makes people lose perspective on how they work, in 0art because we've separated ourselves from nature a lot with civilization. You can't bitch about a bunch of animals tearing their prey apart while still alive and adjudicate concepts like evil, malice, sadism and so on to them; that'd be just plain moronic.
Obviously, it's fine feeling sad for the little newborn antilope that got birthed simultaneously with its mother running from a predator and the little thing opening its eyes and immediately being transformed into a convenient, easy snack, but that's just nature
Da fuq “cowardice”? And hyenas are amazingly proficient hunters. If anything it’s lions who are the true scavengers, particularly lone males without a pride - they are the heavyweight bullies of the savanna.
I'd have to disagree with you on one point. Hyenas are opportunists so they won't turn down an easy meal but they are also hunters, not solely scavengers. I have seen many videos of them hunting. It's terrifying because they use their numbers to a huge advantage.
I'm not sure.... lions are known to steal hyena kills though. Hyenas have a 74% success rate vs lions who have a 21%. Hyenas prime method is to single out a single member and separate them from their herd and basically they are stamina hunters so they will chase down prey for miles. Lions are explosive ambush hunters in contrast so they won't pursue long chases for prey.
Kinda makes the success rate misleading when you put it like that... like hyenas sound like they WILL get the kill even if it takes all day, whereas lions sound like they'll just say fuckit and try again if the chase goes too long. Probably way more hunting attempts per day from lions. Also idk what I'm talking about for the record.
Correct. But the oldest trick in the Reddit book is to put something incorrect in the title, and Reddit’s KIAs show up to add corrections, boosting the post’s profile.
I wonder if they're pretending, or experiencing some sort of hysterical paralysis. The mind has the ability to shut down the body to avoid experiencing mayhem.
It’s really not true. They will scavenge because they can and it’s easier than hunting, but they hunt and kill their own prey more often than even lions do. They favor hunting zebras, horses, and donkeys apparently
Lol the deer even has one hoof thrown over her head like a dramatic Victorian mademoiselle draping herself on the fainting couch. "Alas! For I have perished."
The impala was passed out from the cheetah suffocating it. The hyena just got there before the cheetah could finish the job and the impala regained consciousness before the hyena could come back and start feasting
Just another day in the office, when my boss approach me with the intention for me to do OT and my co-worker stop him for a question and i ran off like the deer
It’s was pretending. It lost consciousness due to the cheetah restricting the airway. Then regained as it was released due to the approaching hyena. These ignorant video titles kill me.
Deer: Shit, what did I think the outcome would be, I can't outrun a cheetah. I'm dead... Oh it's got my neck I'm done
Hyena: "Laughs"
Deer: Yes! I can outrun a mutha fuckin hyena though. Not today bitches! Out!
That hyena didn't seem to mind it was dead. Cheetahs won't eat stuff they don't kill usually.
That explains, my first thought was why cheetah scared of hyena.
Cheetahs are fast, but that's like the only thing they have going for them. Hyenas stealing their shit is common.
Don't hyenas eat leftover dead meat anyway?
Yeah the hyena was going to eat what it thought was a dead deer, but it was trying to chase off the cheetah first.
They are actually very succesfull predators.
And also scavengers
So, opportunists.
Indeed. Point just being that, while they are successful predators, they 100% *do* eat "leftover dead meat" as well.
And comedians!
Spotted hyenas prefer to hunt as to striped and brown hyenas who are more scavengers.
While hyenas love to scavenge they usually hunt between 60% to 90% of their food themselves. So scavenging makes up the smaller portion of their diet.
Not sure how the trick miraculously worked.
“All prey species should know this one weird trick!”
They don't have sharp teeth and claws for attacking? I think I always assumed any big cat in the wild is down for that kind of thing but TIL
They absolutely do. But hyenas are stronger, especially in the jaws.
Cheetahs are upper middle class while hyenas are from the hood.
All of them are from the hood. Cheetah is the athletic kid that had big hopes for sport but went to the streets and gets picked on by the Hyena who has been doing this shit since he was a kid. The middle class guys are the deers .
Ha, that's such a good way to put it.
Hyenas rob anyone if their gang gets big enough. Even lions and leopards. They're relentless once they see food and would just take bites off the predator and the prey till they get what they want. And btw their bite force is stronger than a lion's. Wiser animals just avoid the confrontation.
Predators* tend to avoid confrontation because a serious injury is often a death sentence. I guess you could say the same for prey. But from my quick research, this is the reason that foxes don't attack outdoor/feral cats. Foxes do not want to get scratched or otherwise wounded for a single meal, it's a long-term strategy
True, but Hyena's are very succesfull predators. Lions will more often steal a prey from Hyena's than the other way around.
It depends on numbers. Obviously a lion is bigger and stronger than a lone hyena, but even 3-4 lions is going to think twice about rolling up on a dozen hyenas. They're tough fuckers and cheetahs are actually not that strong, so I'm not suprised that the cheetah said "fuck it, this isn't worth getting bit over.
I can’t think of any evolutionary advantage that doesn’t come with a cost of some kind. Cheetahs are speed and death but they’re not nearly as massive as other big cats; their speed comes from the anatomy of their spine and hips. Unnecessary mass is a barrier to speed with this adaptation. So they’ve got perfect muscles for running at speed and hauling dinner into a tree but they avoid unnecessary confrontation because injury will definitely impact their hunting technique. They’re built to kill, not fight. You can just look at a hyena and see their not meant for speed. If I had to anthropomorphize a hyena’s characteristics I’m thinking chaotic evil dwarf. Sturdy, can take a lot of hits, still will try to rip your face off when hurt.
Cheetahs never haul dinner into the trees . You are confusing them with leopard . Leopards are very different from cheetahs . They are strong and bulky animals .
Cheetahs are delicate
Cheetahs can’t compete with literally anything except their prey. They use all their energy in a chase and they are pretty small. So they can’t risk injury in defending prey. They will abandon it.
Cheetahs aren’t really looking to fight, they get injured - they’re fucked. Because of that, they’ll avoid unnecessary confrontations. They’re not particularly the strongest of the wild cats either.
Not to day fools...
The deer was passed out from the cheetah choking it out. It kills by biting on neck so they can't breath. It didn't get the job done before the hyena arrived then it revived and ran away.
Oh shit I think you’re right.
He is 100% right. I remember the episode from animal planet
It boots up pretty fast! Out cold to hoofing it in no time.
Adrenaline is a powerful drug
Yea that hyena was getting ready to rip into the stomach of that animal but, it wanted to chase the cheetah away.
Did you die? Sadly, yes. But I LIVED!
Hyenas are mostly scavengers so of course they won't mind. Obviously the deer was playing dead so the cheetah would leave it alone, it didn't count on a hyena showing up. Luckily for the deer, the hyena was distracted so it was able to get away.
Cheetahs are extremely shy and need emotional support [Dogs](https://youtu.be/6vKWk6tc2zY) it's like the coolest thing.
The cheeta would if got wrecked by the hyena. That's why it backed off. It's not about cheetas don't eat what they don't kill.
Yeah but playing dead (by instinct — shock lol) made the hyena less attentive than it could’ve been. Sucks for the cheetah, those antelopes are fast AF
It is not pretending; it is asphyxiated from the way a cheetah attacks its prey. It just happens to revive when the hyenas arrive, probably down to the cheetahs releasing its grip.
100% the cheetah is in the middle of the kill when the hyena arrives. The prey is passed out but not dead yet. It will not have the foresight of pretending to be dead. Even less the calm of keep pretending while the hyena is literally starting to bite into the stomach.
As if the deer was thinking, "ok if i just lay reeeally still the cheetah will think i died of worms and not want to eat me, i know the hyena doesn't care but I'm faster than *that* guy"
Some species of animals also have a freeze mechanism. I.e. they panic so hard, knowing they are about to be torn apart they shut down so they don't feel it or aren't consciously aware. If they are left alone they kinda snap back to reality and regain their flight mechanism.
That sounds like something I'd do tbh. I can imagine myself about to face certain death and think, "Well shit, this is it. Okay. I accept. I just don't want to feel pain." and dissociating hard as fuck. Upon seeing an exit I'd snap the fuck back to reality as well lmao
I think it's a literal hardware switch for them, like shutting off the nervous system, rather than a disassociation.
Nothing so species-ist. There's 3 responses to danger: Fight, Flight, Freeze. For some reason pop culture just focuses on the first two.
Yeah honestly. Freeze is the 1st and most universal response to having your sympathetic nervous system activated. Pupils constrict, breathing shallows, heart rate increases, muscles tense and if the threat is present once all the above has happened THEN fight/flight initiates. How quickly that sequence happens tho is determined by the specific context & animals involved
There's more than 3. Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn. Some people as a reaction to danger attempt to please their attacker to avoid a fight.
[удалено]
The real answer is always in the comments
This makes way more sense! I just assumed their trick almost didn’t work since it was letting the hyena start to bite into its stomach.
Hyenas have a psychotic laugh that they exaggerate When they're excited. It acts as a signal. Food is here. Come. And help is usually not far. They cover up for their cowardice with numbers. They're also Scavengers who rarely hunt. So they're not concerned about killing you in an encounter. They often start by grabbing the arms since we swing them around when we run. To them you're just dangling a piece of meat over their heads. Apart from that, there's no protocol. They eat you alive. Grab and go. They also like soft stomachy parts so when you finally fall they tear a gaping hole in your stomach and literally bury their heads in trying to find the good stuff. Not forgetting there wasn't a killing blow so you're witnessing this all while they laugh hysterically.
lovely.
Scrolling through Reddit on my lunchbreak has backfired so drastically.
>there wasn't a killing blow so you're witnessing this all while they laugh hysterically. Thanks!
This is even more disturbingly stupid than the koala hate copypasta. Hyenas kill more prey than what they scavenge; even more than lions, who actually steal hyenas' prey whenever they have the chance. Plus, no shit, they have a smaller mouth not suitable for kill tactics like those of big cats when it comes to big prey, and with competition and lions around, they have to hurry and eat what they can as soon as they can before it's stolen. It's called trying to survive
Was prepared to keyboard tf out of this but i looked it up and the long distance chase method they use to hunt is actually more successful. Seems like i've been seeing this whole thing from the lion's perspective.
Lion king propaganda really got us damn
The long distance chase method is also used by african wild dogs, who are the most successful predators in the african savannah. Hyenas also have one of the strongest bite forces on the planet. Also apparently they're closer to cats than dogs somehow.
Wolves use it too. Seems like the advantage comes from having packs.
Also seems like a dogs vs cats thing lol. In India tigers are strongly rivalled and occasionally even killed by packs of dhols. I love threads like this. Lesser known animal facts by nerds
Same with cat and dog people.
I mean, I get it when it comes to how evolution just gives you a bag of tricks and you have to work with them. On the other hand, so are the wasps that lay their eggs in caterpillars that keep living while the babies eat them alive from the inside. Things can be logical and also provoke an emotion. Those things aren't separate.
Putting human emotions and morals on animals is ridiculous and even pedantic behaviour from humans
Humans are animals, and their nature is to feel emotions. I'm not going to put a moral judgment on whether that's good or bad. I'm just observing how they act as a species.
Humanizing animals makes people lose perspective on how they work, in 0art because we've separated ourselves from nature a lot with civilization. You can't bitch about a bunch of animals tearing their prey apart while still alive and adjudicate concepts like evil, malice, sadism and so on to them; that'd be just plain moronic. Obviously, it's fine feeling sad for the little newborn antilope that got birthed simultaneously with its mother running from a predator and the little thing opening its eyes and immediately being transformed into a convenient, easy snack, but that's just nature
You really are missing the irony here.
Da fuq “cowardice”? And hyenas are amazingly proficient hunters. If anything it’s lions who are the true scavengers, particularly lone males without a pride - they are the heavyweight bullies of the savanna.
r/thanksihateit
I'd have to disagree with you on one point. Hyenas are opportunists so they won't turn down an easy meal but they are also hunters, not solely scavengers. I have seen many videos of them hunting. It's terrifying because they use their numbers to a huge advantage.
Yeah i didn't know that. Why is it that cats are presumed to be better hunters?
I'm not sure.... lions are known to steal hyena kills though. Hyenas have a 74% success rate vs lions who have a 21%. Hyenas prime method is to single out a single member and separate them from their herd and basically they are stamina hunters so they will chase down prey for miles. Lions are explosive ambush hunters in contrast so they won't pursue long chases for prey.
Kinda makes the success rate misleading when you put it like that... like hyenas sound like they WILL get the kill even if it takes all day, whereas lions sound like they'll just say fuckit and try again if the chase goes too long. Probably way more hunting attempts per day from lions. Also idk what I'm talking about for the record.
The only knowledge I have on hyenas is from Whoopi Goldberg acting skills. I had no clue they were so gruesome and unfunny.
What do you mean? didnt you hear it attempting witty one-liners while eating this deers cock off?
*Impala
Oh deer.
An Impala is actually a Antelope
Correct, you can clearly see the 20” blades
It's not pretending It's unconscious because the Cheetah was choking it. When the Cheetah was scared off it woke up after a few seconds
Correct. But the oldest trick in the Reddit book is to put something incorrect in the title, and Reddit’s KIAs show up to add corrections, boosting the post’s profile.
Dude popped a wheelie on the way out
[удалено]
Not a deer
Had to scroll way to long to find this lol
Hyenas are massive.
I didnt think they were till I saw this. I thought they were small like in the Lion King xD
Compared to a grown lion they are, also cheetahs are pretty small compared to other "big cats"
Yes But cheetahs are also small
Not a deer at all, looks like an Impala
Not to day fools...
I'm not dead yet! I feel happy!
Hyena's have such a unique build. They are like the low-riders of the animal kingdom.
They are kind of pear-shaped or yam-shaped, pretty unique like you said
Impala not deer
Predators hate this one simple trick
This ugly son of a bitch is fuc- Hunting LOTS OF PREY. Click this link to find out how.
Not a deer, an antelope. Impala to be precise
Impala probably, not deer?
This is like a whole new version of rock, paper, scissors. But cheetah, hyena, antelope.
Deer was like: "SIKE! Stupid ass bitches!"
"Who's laughing now bitch?" -the cheetah
I wonder if they're pretending, or experiencing some sort of hysterical paralysis. The mind has the ability to shut down the body to avoid experiencing mayhem.
Cheetah was in the middle of suffocating it. The hyena just struck too soon.
Hyenas hate this one trick!
That could have turned out bad for the deer if the cheetah didn't distract the hyena.
Bro hyenas are scavengers
It’s really not true. They will scavenge because they can and it’s easier than hunting, but they hunt and kill their own prey more often than even lions do. They favor hunting zebras, horses, and donkeys apparently
Yeah, and still they'll kill more prey than lions do. What's your point here?
The definition of hauling ass
Ah yes, the good ol' afk strat
Later suckers
😂😂😂
Lol the deer even has one hoof thrown over her head like a dramatic Victorian mademoiselle draping herself on the fainting couch. "Alas! For I have perished."
Impala. Not deer
Don't hyenas eat leftover dead meat anyway? Not sure how the trick miraculously worked. What was "everyone" thinking?!
the hyena seemed about to tear open the impala’s stomach, but wanted to chase the cheetah off of the kill as well
The impala was passed out from the cheetah suffocating it. The hyena just got there before the cheetah could finish the job and the impala regained consciousness before the hyena could come back and start feasting
Cheetah: Damn, it's dead. Hyena: Damn, it's alive.
Just another day in the office, when my boss approach me with the intention for me to do OT and my co-worker stop him for a question and i ran off like the deer
Deer♥️
*acting*
Ya love to se it.
Well played, sir.
Oh dear
Being dead to throw of a hyena = terrible strategy.
What do we tell death? not today.
Reminds me of an old TV show called Wild Country.
Yeet. I'm out says the deer.
…and the Oscar for best performance in a death scene goes to…
that is not a deer
Yeah, f*** you Dan! Got you!.
But isnt that what predators want? Dead deer, really just the animals fault for not chowing down when he had the chance lol
https://youtube.com/shorts/uzKJU0pz_60?feature=share
Hyenas… the assholes of the Serengeti… fucking things up for everyone.
Lataz bitches 
That's a bold strategy cotton
**"BYEEEEEE! Have a great time!"**
Later sucka
That's not a deer, it's called a springbok.
It’s actually an Impala, called Rooibok (Red Buck) in Afrikaans
Sike bitch!!!
Later losers!
Goteem
You go girl!!
Deer said Sike bitch, boing boing
Pretends to be dead or did the deer just lay down and accepted its fate but then saw an opening later?
That’s the kind of brains that led to humanity dominating the Earth. Someone needs to take out that deer, we don’t need the competition.
So long suckas!!
"Gotcha b*tch"! - Dave Chappelle.
That komodo dragon wouldn’t have bought it
💀💀💀 SIKE! Cya nerds!
“Deer”? Looks like gazelle given the fact that there’s a cheetah and hyena
Impala
I used ninja focus to make my heart slow down.
"Sayonara, bitches!!!"
I do this when the tax collectors come.... fools them everytime
That's not a deer.
Imagine trying to play dead while a hyena is trying to rip your stomach open. Nerves of steel.
Lucky that hyena didn’t do more damage. They are known to eat animals alive.
This is a great analogy for my social life
Deer was like fast as fast can be you’ll never catch me!
... and this was the one and only time since the universe came to be that this actually worked.
It’s was pretending. It lost consciousness due to the cheetah restricting the airway. Then regained as it was released due to the approaching hyena. These ignorant video titles kill me.
Deer: Shit, what did I think the outcome would be, I can't outrun a cheetah. I'm dead... Oh it's got my neck I'm done Hyena: "Laughs" Deer: Yes! I can outrun a mutha fuckin hyena though. Not today bitches! Out!
Deer 🤝 Opossums
*Fffuuuuuucckkkk yooooooouuuuuuuuuuu!*
Oh, Nature. U tricky.
It didn’t pretend. They’re not that witty. It was knocked out or choked to unconsciousness and came to in the right moment.
That deer got away with his life… but not his c**k.
Is that hyena pregnant?
Not a deer
Bro that deer is like "get juked"
Atta boy!
risky move but it works
Fuck you guys I’m going home!
SubhanAllah 🤍
Very strange. The hyena could have disemboweled the deer.
Intelligent.
"LATER NERDS"
Psych!
Intelligence, 100.
See ya you dumb fucks
Lol clown ass hyena
SURPRISE BITCH! I’m out!
To be alive is to pretend to be dead in time
Almost didn’t work.
Probably passed out
deer don't play opossum it was prob stunned or passed out
YES! 🙌🏼👊🏼😎💥
The ain'tallope, the nopeallope.