Dominant female meerkats will kill the cubs of lower-status females. Then they'll harass and bully the females until they become infertile because of stress. The subordinate females will avoid the dominant females as much as they can, but when the dominant female has her cubs? They'll come back and help look after them - that whole babysitting thing meerkats are so famous for.
Brown hyenas will sometimes adopt the cubs of killed or MIA other hyenas. Spotted hyenas eat the whole animal, up to and including crunching and sawllowing the bones, which is why their crap is whitish.
Hyenas are extremely cool, and so much better than lions. Lions just have really good PR.
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Dominant female meerkats will kill the cubs of lower-status females. Then they'll harass and bully the females until they become infertile because of stress. The subordinate females will avoid the dominant females as much as they can, but when the dominant female has her cubs? They'll come back and help look after them - that whole babysitting thing meerkats are so famous for.
Brown hyenas will sometimes adopt the cubs of killed or MIA other hyenas. Spotted hyenas eat the whole animal, up to and including crunching and sawllowing the bones, which is why their crap is whitish.
Hyenas are extremely cool, and so much better than lions. Lions just have really good PR.