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To: jlallen who wrote (46656)	7/23/1999 3:56:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hyenas tend to avoid a fight. JLA, what I have read about hyenas (which is not very much, I admit) indicates that they are super-combative from the minute they are born. When twins emerge from the womb, for example, they immediately start fighting, and the fight does not end until one is killed. Furthermore, the females (who have very ambiguous sex organs)are larger and more aggressive than the males, and in the womb are aleady "bathed in testosterone" (I specifically remember that expression), which explains why they start tearing each other up the minute they are out of it. I gather this is true more of the spotted hyena than of other hyenas. And the spotted hyena is primarily a hunter, rather than a scavenger. Yet even the spotted hyenas like to move in on a lioness, for example, and snatch her prey away from her after she's killed it. So, beware the female hyena! <g>