Throughout history, few pets were more befuddling as compared to hyena. This really is a critter, all things considered, that famously laughs simply by name, then proceed to slaughter us when we emerge from our homes like us, and according to the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder, can call us. Also our pets aren’t safe through the hyena, for “when its shadow falls on dogs they have been struck dumb,” Pliny writes.
Most confusing of all of the, however, are the hyena’s genitals. Certainly, Pliny claims, the critter is “popularly thought to be bisexual also to become female and male in alternative years.” In Aesop’s fable “The Hyenas,” they “change their sex every year.” Also Ernest Hemingway called the hyena a “hermaphroditic self-eating devourer for the dead, trailer of calving cows, ham-stringer, possible biter-off of the face during the night whilst you slept.” Sick burn, Ernest. Continue reading “Fantastically Incorrect: The Indegent, Misunderstood Hyena Cannot Assistance That It Offers Weird Intercourse”