By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave

Re:By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons i... by dheera on Thursday May 13, 2021 @09:19PM (#27149527)

I'm not trying to make a moral argument, I'm just saying that those that fall prey to hyenas suffer much more than if they had fallen prey to a number of other predators that tend to kill swiftly before eating (feline predators and snakes for example kill quickly; many birds also tend to kill on the first strike).

Hyenas don't bother killing, they just eat, and tend to start from non-vital organs, of all places, which is quite different from what most predators would do.

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Re:By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons i... by walrus01 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @09:26PM (#27149591)

I'm no wildlife biologist but it seems that hyenas are not big enough to take down some of their prey by the neck (without high risk of injury to themselves, where a broken leg probably means certain death), so the evolutionary adaptation is to go for the soft underbelly. Undoubtedly the prey animals do feel pain and suffer.

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