Relax, I wasn't trying to make a moral argument. I was just saying that the suffering endured by those animals from a hyena seems much more than if they had been caught by many other similar-sized predators that tend to kill quickly.

It's also interesting that hyenas don't care to kill first, because another big reason to kill your prey as quickly as possible is that it stops fighting, and has less potential to injure you. If the hyena had gone for the neck first the animal would be down quickly and the hyena could eat in peace.