The Evolution of Hyenas

Not very long ago the range of hyenas stretched much further than it does today. They lived throughout the northern hemisphere in Europe and also in the arctic. This video seeks to explain how they got there and their evolution.
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  • @gorillabbq4811
    @gorillabbq48114 жыл бұрын

    When ever I see these videos, it makes me want to look for actual specific realistic prehistoric survival games that *kinda don't exist.*

  • @DragonNeverLoves

    @DragonNeverLoves

    3 жыл бұрын

    Try Ark Survival Evolved, the PC version but there's also a Mobile one (if you haven't know it yet). Man, that game will make you angry and screw you up via the giant bugs and Raptors so much that you can't stop playing it 🤣😂

  • @JbBarnes88

    @JbBarnes88

    3 жыл бұрын

    GorillaBBQ lol I swearrr bro !

  • @enemyoftherepublic777

    @enemyoftherepublic777

    3 жыл бұрын

    You could try Far Cry Primal. It’s a fun game but not all that historically accurate. Unfortunately hyenas aren’t present in the game which is odd since it takes place in Central Europe where cave hyenas were abundant.

  • @advaitchavan3137

    @advaitchavan3137

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@enemyoftherepublic777 Bloodfang Sabertooth is Loveeeee💕💕💕

  • @ihateyoube

    @ihateyoube

    3 жыл бұрын

    Uh Roblox cenozoic survival? Models are great and i think they're going to be adding cave hyenas back soon.

  • @nairbvel
    @nairbvel4 жыл бұрын

    After being a fan of extinct animals all my life, why is this the first time I ever learned there had been hyenas in North America?!?!? Thank you!

  • @Argentvs

    @Argentvs

    3 жыл бұрын

    It seems NAmerica was like africa today, but all animals were bigger. Cheetahs, lions, mastodonts, hyenas.

  • @user-ft3jq5vi2l

    @user-ft3jq5vi2l

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Argentvs and whooly

  • @Kuhmuhnistische_Partei

    @Kuhmuhnistische_Partei

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Argentvs Hyenas basically lived everywhere except in Antarctica and Australia I guess. There were populations of striped hyenas in the area of modern Germany and France. And a subspecies of the spottes hyena - cave hyenas - also lived all over Europe, but I think especially in the southern parts like Spain and Italy. But niot exclusively, we know for example that Neanderthals competed with cave hyenas for liveable caves and the hyenas sometimes stole the food of the Neanderthals. Good old times. And about lions... I think there were even cave lions in what today is the UK... so it's not like North America was like Africa, but a lot of species we only know from Africa today once lived basically everywhere.

  • @Argentvs

    @Argentvs

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei Yes and no. In that time period Europe was a subtropical forest and cooled down, the middle east steppes became arid, siberia cold and Europe a boreal forest. Those hyenas, lions, elephants lived in forest and caves and then cold climate. The only two places were the environment was the same as modern Africa savannahs was middle east, central Asia and north America. South America had the same but with different fauna, giant sloths (who ate meat) giant predator birds, giant glyptodont, small horses, rodents, tapir alike and camelids that occupied the nich of bovines and large herbivores. Even the Sahara was like steppes and forest then. Animals from Europe, middle east and central Asia migrated there and with the climate changed moved down to central and south Africa while all of those biomes died out elsewhere. Including our hominid ancestors who evolved in southern east Europe and the region of Levant-Anatolia. Big cats evolved in central Asia and migrated everywhere.

  • @Kuhmuhnistische_Partei

    @Kuhmuhnistische_Partei

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Argentvs Didn't hyenas live until the end of the ice age in europe and it were basically the forests that killed them, because wolves and humans were more efficient hunters in forests while hyenas liked more open space?

  • @thoranzalarvhazen4250
    @thoranzalarvhazen42504 жыл бұрын

    Palpatine: "Did you ever hear about the evolution of Hyenas?" Anakin: "No...?" Palpatine: "I thought not. .... It's not a story the Jedi concern themselves with." Anakin: "But what does that have to do with---" Palpatine: "High up in the arctic circle, a predator clings on for survival against persistent snow and blizzards in Ice Age, Canada. A hyena. ...The discovery of a fossil has revealed these beasts roamed two-thousand-five-hundred miles north of anywhere they had been previously known from...."

  • @rad3954

    @rad3954

    4 жыл бұрын

    sorry but I think you’re at the wrong channel

  • @gregoryspatisserie9858

    @gregoryspatisserie9858

    3 жыл бұрын

    Gave me a good laugh

  • @itsyaboinadia

    @itsyaboinadia

    3 жыл бұрын

    lmao

  • @dtxspeaks268

    @dtxspeaks268

    3 жыл бұрын

    @fumanchu168 I would rather watch episode 3 than any of the Disney wars movies

  • @c4onmylip
    @c4onmylip3 жыл бұрын

    I read in a speculative paper some time ago that the most likely cause for hyenas going extinct in most of the world except Africa was due to the bond humans made with wolves effectively snuffing hyenas out of their ecological niche. Wish I could remember where I read that from

  • @caniform-craze2080

    @caniform-craze2080

    3 жыл бұрын

    Striped hyenas still roam across central and south Asia.

  • @c4onmylip

    @c4onmylip

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@caniform-craze2080 very cool info man, thanks for sharing.

  • @caniform-craze2080

    @caniform-craze2080

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@c4onmylip no problem.

  • @Muenni

    @Muenni

    Жыл бұрын

    They might have been outcompeted by wolves and humans even without dogs. It's very unlikely climate change alone wiped out all cave hyenas.

  • @educationforblind6362

    @educationforblind6362

    Жыл бұрын

    @@caniform-craze2080 still some people kill them, that why they are little there.

  • @FloozieOne
    @FloozieOne2 жыл бұрын

    It is so good to see a vid about hyenas that doesn't vilify them. Usually they are depicted as thieves, indiscriminate killers and always as "cowardly running dogs". As usual your presentation blew away the misconceptions and presented the information in a concise and detailed format allowing people to understand these unique animals better and remove them from their "bad guys" file.

  • @theprinceoftides6836

    @theprinceoftides6836

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactamundo, nailed it. I love my Hyenas.

  • @magnarcreed3801

    @magnarcreed3801

    2 жыл бұрын

    Still said they steal kills more than hunt which is absolutely false.

  • @malourocha9211

    @malourocha9211

    Жыл бұрын

    But they are cowardly, I just saw that same word used to describe them in a joe Rogan podcast

  • @CHRB-nn6qp

    @CHRB-nn6qp

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@malourocha9211 You use Joe Rogan as a primary source 💀💀💀

  • @malourocha9211

    @malourocha9211

    8 ай бұрын

    @CHRB-nn6qp yeah I definitely trust the scientist, doctors and biologists that go on joe rogan.

  • @jackback70
    @jackback703 жыл бұрын

    "hyenas are more closely related to felines than canines" mind blown

  • @kameleon2354

    @kameleon2354

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think that’s because there was this documentary on Viasat Nature that put hyenas on k9 tree next to wolfs

  • @ebtheartist3843

    @ebtheartist3843

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hyenas can also loaf like a cat to further prove their relationship to them

  • @Andrew-ug2cy

    @Andrew-ug2cy

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ebtheartist3843 what does loaf mean ?

  • @briannadickson2884

    @briannadickson2884

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Andrew-ug2cy lol

  • @Andrew-ug2cy

    @Andrew-ug2cy

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@briannadickson2884 I'm serious lol what does that mean

  • @michaelrossi5128
    @michaelrossi51284 жыл бұрын

    I've been looking for this channel for years and had no idea

  • @planescaped

    @planescaped

    4 жыл бұрын

    PBS Eons is another good one.

  • @Xgent

    @Xgent

    4 жыл бұрын

    planescaped no bbc earth Ksjwjs

  • @davidnotonstinnett

    @davidnotonstinnett

    4 жыл бұрын

    Trey the Explainer, Henry the Paleo Guy, Ben G Thomas and Stephen Milo are some other great a Paleo youtubers. Isaac Arthur is a great explainer type but does sci-fi themed stuff Just some other great stuff if you haven’t seen these guys

  • @buddythemoth

    @buddythemoth

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@planescaped *they believe in charles darwin tho.*

  • @TheBigSlugger

    @TheBigSlugger

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@buddythemoth pretty sure he existed

  • @areigon
    @areigon4 жыл бұрын

    This is one of the most interesting and under talked about Carnivoran family on the planet and I am commenting this to ensure this video gets the increased interaction rate it deserves and shows up on more people's recommendeds

  • @BluJean6692
    @BluJean66923 жыл бұрын

    5:23 He sneek He snacc but most importantly He pee when he attac

  • @franciscojosealarte7664

    @franciscojosealarte7664

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought I was the only one who noticed, thank you

  • @JellyAntz

    @JellyAntz

    3 жыл бұрын

    *OH GOD*

  • @DinoBot65
    @DinoBot654 жыл бұрын

    I'm learning so much about ancient Hyenas😂

  • @swarmreturns969

    @swarmreturns969

    4 жыл бұрын

    Watch his dino vids they are super interesting and cool

  • @andromedaphoenix
    @andromedaphoenix2 жыл бұрын

    I love hyenas so much. They're my favourite creatures and this was a very interesting and enjoyable video!

  • @tyrowolfe3034
    @tyrowolfe30342 жыл бұрын

    so glad I found this video! I love hyenas and there is so little well made educational content about them out there. To me, they are as fascinating as alligators, both being long lived species who have undergone little change over very long periods of time. So misunderstood and hated, yet such an amazing and unique animal. The more you know about them, the more you realize how little you understand of nature.

  • @tropickman

    @tropickman

    2 жыл бұрын

    Love? What is there to love? They hunted mankind for 100,000's of years, and not only in Africa, but Europe, Asia & N. America. I imagine there are hyena hunting tours available in Africa. Ought to look into it.

  • @hyenaboy7504

    @hyenaboy7504

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tropickman "They hunted mankind for 100,000's of years, and not only in Africa, but Europe, Asia & N. America." Name me one predator that HASN'T hunted humans throughout history.

  • @bethanybayer5598

    @bethanybayer5598

    2 жыл бұрын

    Very well said...said the catdoglionzebracheetahhippoooooect

  • @aguywhodoesstuff1116

    @aguywhodoesstuff1116

    Жыл бұрын

    I will boop the snoot, no matter what happens to me afterwards

  • @aguywhodoesstuff1116

    @aguywhodoesstuff1116

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hyenaboy7504 dont worry its just a troll

  • @brunobucciaratiswife
    @brunobucciaratiswife2 жыл бұрын

    Hyenas get a bad reputation, but they’re so unique and beautiful, and funny too! I love these giant buddies.

  • @ishrendon6435

    @ishrendon6435

    Жыл бұрын

    Theyre just annoying and taste funny . My father used to hunt hyenas and i tried it once. I didn't like it but my uncles said it was tasty

  • @tubarao1143
    @tubarao11434 жыл бұрын

    Commenting for the algorithm. This channel deserves way more subs!

  • @Ingeb91
    @Ingeb913 жыл бұрын

    Didn't even know hyenas were closer to cats than dogs, so I was pretty surprised when I found out they hunted the bearing land bridge, and even into north america at some point. That's incredible. I have newfound respect for the hyena.

  • @theprinceoftides6836

    @theprinceoftides6836

    2 жыл бұрын

    I've always found them fascinating, in a way they have alotta similarities to us humans, the group dynamics, taking care of and protecting ones family, and also the ability of both being able to hunt and scavenge, just like humans and also being very vindictive, territorial and aggressive just like humans lol.

  • @brianticas7671

    @brianticas7671

    2 жыл бұрын

    I been known that 4 like the last 15 years. Theyre also related to the moongoose. Evil fuckers man. Right now theyre the most overpopulated animal on earth.

  • @g3neriik901

    @g3neriik901

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@theprinceoftides6836 a lot of animals are like that

  • @Redstoneprime316

    @Redstoneprime316

    Жыл бұрын

    @@brianticas7671 "most overpopulated animal on Earth" not sure how they're the most "overpopulated" when there's only around 27,000-47,000 spotted hyenas out there, compared to around 200,000-250,000 grey wolves (for example). Plus: no animal is evil, as there's nothing evil about trying to survive.

  • @user-ti6ix5tn2o

    @user-ti6ix5tn2o

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@Redstoneprime316tame their "evil"ness. And not through anything that callously hurt or kill them.

  • @pilesofkittens
    @pilesofkittens4 жыл бұрын

    this is interesting, especially my favorite animal *IS* a hyena

  • @rollochairbreaker230

    @rollochairbreaker230

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same. Such underappreciated animals.

  • @Solitude11-11

    @Solitude11-11

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mine too 😊

  • @regular-joe

    @regular-joe

    3 жыл бұрын

    Check out Kevin Richardson's channel The Lion Whisperer, he has a reserve in Africa that includes a clan of hyenas.

  • @royalyeen2845

    @royalyeen2845

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me to

  • @javssilva3995
    @javssilva39954 жыл бұрын

    Amazing content. You've reignited my curiosity of animals and their ancestors.

  • @Rise876
    @Rise8764 жыл бұрын

    I adore your videos. Always so incredibly interesting👌🏼

  • @pspk94
    @pspk944 жыл бұрын

    Excellent stuff mate, keep up the good work! ;)

  • @boyinblue.
    @boyinblue.2 жыл бұрын

    I wish we were able to go back in time if only to watch, we could learn so much about both human and animal behavior from the times we traveled to. The biggest thing I would want to know about is their social structures as that always interests me about modern animals.

  • @oretes85
    @oretes854 жыл бұрын

    I’m feeling pretty dumb right now, I can’t believe I have always thought a hyena is a canine.

  • @Aeraleach

    @Aeraleach

    4 жыл бұрын

    yeah me too

  • @theman9048

    @theman9048

    4 жыл бұрын

    Convergent evolution

  • @viorp5267

    @viorp5267

    3 жыл бұрын

    They look and act like goddamn dogs!

  • @Ingeb91

    @Ingeb91

    3 жыл бұрын

    We all intuitively think that, right, that hyenas are in the camp with bears, of being close to dogs without actually being dogs, but this is why we need science, because the world isn't intuitive. We're a smart animal, but without evidence based research, we wouldn't get very far.

  • @viorp5267

    @viorp5267

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ingeb91 It's still weird, they look and act so much like dogs.

  • @harrymills2770
    @harrymills27704 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for educating me a little about our natural history. Whatever it takes, try to keep your stuff up, you're going to collect many patrons over time.

  • @Ai-he1dp
    @Ai-he1dp4 жыл бұрын

    Lovely little podcast type presentations!....very informative.... wishing this channel success!

  • @YTWgamer
    @YTWgamer4 жыл бұрын

    Keep making videos please. I learn so much :)

  • @generalbutterscotch4887
    @generalbutterscotch48873 жыл бұрын

    Wait wait hold up. You're telling me Meerkats are literally part cat after all?-

  • @Hamsquatch1973
    @Hamsquatch1973 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for that, always been fascinated with hyenas and how they came to be.

  • @dinohall2595
    @dinohall25952 жыл бұрын

    As much as I love the African big cats (and I do), hyenas have been my favorite predator from the African plains since a young age. So happy to see them getting some love in the paleo corners of KZread now too! 😊😊

  • @Thulgore
    @Thulgore3 жыл бұрын

    I would love to see the "Evolution of mustelids" because that whole group is fucking insane! They have so few predators compared to their size. Of all mammals physically......they are so fucking amazing. They also seem remarkably distinct from modern canids, felines and aren't rodents or marsupials. That is rare air for mammalian predators. I assume they are .........actually I don't know what they are closest to. I would assume canid as they don't seem feline. I actually have no fucking idea. Edit: I can't think of a smaller mammalian predator that is not a rodent.

  • @jamesknapp64

    @jamesknapp64

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mustelids are Caniforms. ie Dog like carnivora family. So they are closeish to canids. More close to Bears and seals than canids though.

  • @bleddynwolf8463

    @bleddynwolf8463

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jamesknapp64 'bout to say the same, more derived than bears and dogs

  • @juanjoyaborja.3054

    @juanjoyaborja.3054

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just remember, in the wild, size matters during a fight, unless you’re a wolverine.

  • @beastmaster0934

    @beastmaster0934

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@juanjoyaborja.3054 Or a honey badger.

  • @anonperson3972
    @anonperson39723 жыл бұрын

    6:20 As a wildlife biologist I have spent time in many ecosystems. And I know from being in Africa that many Savanah habitats when fenced off from elephants turn to woodlands and that if you introduce sufficient grazing and browsing pressure to woodland ecosystems in temperate environments that woodland will be oppressed. Can we confidently say it was climate change that caused this shift or the loss of megafauna? How would dense closed canopy woodlands form in cold and temperate environments under the pressure of mammoths and elephants?

  • @micahsmith4612
    @micahsmith46124 жыл бұрын

    This is fantastic. My daughter and I watch all of your videos. Please keep it up I think your sub count will snowball

  • @mothlightmedia1936

    @mothlightmedia1936

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you and I hope so

  • @scottlepak7068
    @scottlepak70684 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Your content quality is phenomenal, and the information that you share is even more so. My only complaint is that I didn't find this channel sooner! I don't know if you will ever see this, but if you do, I'd like to ask something. You said that the "dog-like" hyenas were out-competed when the canids entered into Eurasia and Africa (other than the aardwolf), but isn't Chasmaporthetes (of which C. ossifragus was the only hyena species to make it into North America) also a member of the "dog-like" lineage. Also I think you should have at least touched upon Chasmaporthetes' cheetah-like adaptations for running, particularly its long, slender limb bones. That's all for now. God Bless You, and keep up the great work! Now I have to go binge the rest of your videos. :)

  • @mothlightmedia1936

    @mothlightmedia1936

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you I hope you enjoy the other videos

  • @mothlightmedia1936

    @mothlightmedia1936

    4 жыл бұрын

    And yes, the dog like hyenas dramatically dropped in diversity when canids entered Eurasia but some did survive

  • @scottlepak7068

    @scottlepak7068

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mothlightmedia1936 Awesome! You responded! I haven't had time to get through all of the videos yet, but I have certainly loved all of the ones I have seen so far!

  • @anonimous8457
    @anonimous84572 жыл бұрын

    i love your content and this video has made me gain great appreciation for hyenas, theyre actually pretty cool

  • @ShadowXLugia
    @ShadowXLugia4 жыл бұрын

    Just discovered your channel! Been looking around for more information on Hyena's and stumbled upon your channel. Your content is really well put together and gave me a lot of new information on Hyena's that i've been struggling to find. keep it up! I'll definitely be subscribing, Also would I be able to make a request on Foxes?

  • @johnlovejoy7525
    @johnlovejoy75254 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos and the music you use. Thank you and keep it up!

  • @SilverScarletSpider
    @SilverScarletSpider2 жыл бұрын

    4:05 After reading the Attack on Titan Manga and Uzumaki, images like this really freak me out. 5:43 Imagine being a prehistoric hominid terrified of the sight of pack-hunting predator hyenas, dogs, and big cats eat you and your seed. These wild animals sprinting across an open field racing from across continents and the best a hominid can do is attempt to hide from their superior nose.

  • @60sfoley
    @60sfoley4 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating, thanks for another great video!

  • @burrhe
    @burrhe3 жыл бұрын

    Hyenas have concentrated stomach acids, not strong stomach acids. All mammals have strong stomach acids, just differ in the concentrations

  • @jameswaterhouse-brown6646
    @jameswaterhouse-brown66464 жыл бұрын

    Loving the videos. Thanks !

  • @biggiesmol
    @biggiesmol2 жыл бұрын

    Your channel appeared in my recommendations due to algorithm I guess. I cannot be more happier though. Keep up the good work.

  • @edoardocastelnovi7154
    @edoardocastelnovi71543 жыл бұрын

    There are no real evidence of dogs outcompeting hyenas... I see this story from a different perspective : During the middle and late Miocene (15/5 mya), Hyaenids in Africa and Eurasia, and Borophagines (bone crushing dogs) in North America, they thrived through their golden age, until about 7-5 mya, environment and climatic change at the end of the Miocene declared doom for most of these two dinasties' members, who at that point have become too big or too specialised (or both) Meanwhile, Canines, such as Eucyon and Vulpes, they were overall smaller and they were also more generalist, opportunistic, versatile and adaptable ecotypes, and their lack of specialization is what made them able to replace their competitors while more ecological niches remained vacant Modern dogs still have this versatile personality, due to their "young age" in evolutionary terms While hyenas thrived to present time by becoming more and more specialised and ecologically efficient (and also becoming more vulnerable to changing conditions), and the bone crushing dogs already died out around 2 mya. Now, I am not an expert nor a professional paleontologist, but I still have the feeling that people do not understand how nature really works (MOST OF THE TIME) : when they say that different species FIGHT for survival, it is not a bloody Mortal Kombat match! Because (believe it or not), Direct Competition is actually quite rare LIFE FORMS DO NOT WANT TO FIGHT ONE ANOTHER, and that's why speciation and specialisation occur, different species occupy different niches just to survive and stay out of troubles So what happens in most cases is that the ecosystem remains stable until "mutations" occur, some species go extinct leaving various empty spaces, and then new species can finally come in and fill those empty niches In the end, I don't think modern dogs managed to overthrow their rivals (no matter how epic and glorious this idea sounds to you), just as mammals did not overthrow / outcompete dinosaurs : they inherited their role in the Circle of Life (sorry for casual Disney reference😁) THE END

  • @PalmettoNDN
    @PalmettoNDN4 жыл бұрын

    Please increase your volume! Listening on a Samsung S8, a very good quality phone, I can't understand you over the sound of a fan. I've noticed that about all of your videos. Please keep up the great work.

  • @alihaidersultan671

    @alihaidersultan671

    3 жыл бұрын

    Get a new phone

  • @briannadickson2884

    @briannadickson2884

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm on a note 20 and hear no such thing

  • @carlblix7794
    @carlblix77943 жыл бұрын

    5:05 "This scavenging lifestyle was probably forced upon them due to their large size, making them ill suited for hunting down prey over long distances". Does evolution ever work like that? Isn't it more likely that they developed large body sizes specificly so that they could steal prey from other carnivores without having to hunt themselves? The guiding principle for evolution is to select for what works for a species -Why would large body size as a trait be selected for if it created a problem that had to be "delt with"?

  • @cymonbailey5409

    @cymonbailey5409

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mating preferences, going off of today’s hyenas so could be wrong, larger size could be indicative that it was easier for females to establish dominance and therefore secure mating rights. If my wording can be understood. TLDR Bigger to fight for mates

  • @carlblix7794

    @carlblix7794

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cymonbailey5409 Sure, sexual selection is a thing, but if the trait being 'pushed for' by sexual selection is outright disadventageous for the already established mode of hunting -Would it be selected for? I guess if moving from active hunting to scanvenging/stealing prey was a smooth lateral move that didn't really require any other anatomical adaptations, it could have happened that way. TLDR Hm -Yeah, maby.

  • @camacakegd3714

    @camacakegd3714

    3 жыл бұрын

    Carl Blix hmmmm... I’m not an expert, but couldn’t that larger size be an adaptation for colder climates? I mean plenty of ice age mammals were giants to have a greater surface to volume ratio (or something like that) to retain heat better, right?

  • @carlblix7794

    @carlblix7794

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@camacakegd3714 I'm no expert either, far from it. That could very well be it, what you're saying. I'm not throwing out the theory of sexual selection as a cause either (why not both?). My original comment was more about how Moth Light Media made it sound as if larger body sizes caused a significant problem for cave hyenas (i.e. they became worse suited for hunting) but they somehow still evolved in that direction. Something about that seemed off to me. I would think that being able to get food would always be the heaviest weighing factor steering the evolution of an animal. Obviously they DID get larger -So either it actually didn't cause any problems for them being able to get food (-very easy transition to scavenging) or there must have been some serious evolutionary pressure from somewhere else, outweighing the need to be effective hunters (I'm leaning towards the first). Sorry for the rather long answer.

  • @mehrsaft5949

    @mehrsaft5949

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@carlblix7794 I stopped short at the same point of the video, wondering, if that could be correct. I'm not an expert either, but I suppose, that if there's a lifestyle promising an advantage, evolution will lead to body traits, which are better adapted to this lifestyle. So I think, the starting point are the influencing factors (like the need of food), the result is the body trait. Not vice versa (it's not, that body traits are the starting point, and then a species begins to try to get food on that condition by trial and error.) But I think things perhaps could become different, if suddenly a new competitor appears on the field. Then your traits might turn out not to be good enough anymore, and a species had to search new ways to survive.

  • @zakareeradzak6821
    @zakareeradzak68212 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos, they are so informative and interesting

  • @guerreiro943
    @guerreiro9434 жыл бұрын

    Nice video man. You have a bright future ahead.

  • @mothlightmedia1936

    @mothlightmedia1936

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, that means a lot

  • @Yunowuno
    @Yunowuno2 жыл бұрын

    Your super under-rated your work is astounding and I never knew this you have a new subscriber this information will be awesome and sure to tell my history teacher or science teacher 😀 😄 thank you bro your awesome I wish you the best and stay safe ❤

  • @Younglordkash
    @Younglordkash2 жыл бұрын

    I love watching vids like this so much

  • @thelifesampler
    @thelifesampler4 жыл бұрын

    why woulndt hyenas preserved their claws and hand-like paws as felines did?. They evolved the same way as canine instead.

  • @TheSynecdoche

    @TheSynecdoche

    4 жыл бұрын

    Because of their different hunting methods? The only cats really running after their prey also have developed doglike paws.

  • @thelifesampler

    @thelifesampler

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheSynecdoche pretty solid argument , Cheetahs have doglike paws. I think that kind of paws are made for chashing and running instead of strengh.

  • @corv1d770

    @corv1d770

    3 жыл бұрын

    Canine paws are adapted for traction while running which helps propel them forward, convergent evolution is a fan of this method of boosting locomotion and that can be seen in the fact that both hyenas and cheetahs possess claws more like dogs. Cheetahs are the only cat known (to my current knowledge) that doesn't have retractable claws for this reason. Retractable claws and flexible cat like paws would only be needed for climbing habits and do not benefit traction. The hyena is no longer arborial and hasn't been in ages due to that niche not being beneficial to them anymore

  • @5tnblnkt
    @5tnblnkt4 жыл бұрын

    Hyenas have almost as twice the bite force of a lion, that's the only correction i wanted to make.

  • @5tnblnkt

    @5tnblnkt

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@garadgantal1438 yes they do, lions habe 650 psi and hyenas 1100 psi. They can dig thru bone easier because of that

  • @craigoreilly99

    @craigoreilly99

    4 жыл бұрын

    Put it this way..... Trainers will hand feed a lion..... But would never ever evvvverrr hand feed a hyena

  • @lightningboltt5437
    @lightningboltt54374 жыл бұрын

    I love your videos They are so interesting

  • @kimbratton9620
    @kimbratton9620 Жыл бұрын

    This was very cool so happy I watched it!!!

  • @mikeyoung7660
    @mikeyoung76603 жыл бұрын

    Great video very educational thank you

  • @Ptitnain2
    @Ptitnain23 жыл бұрын

    Great content.

  • @Handsy_McGee
    @Handsy_McGee2 жыл бұрын

    I may have missed it, but I don't think you even mentioned hyenas being one of the only animals who are front wheel drive...

  • @xkw88
    @xkw883 жыл бұрын

    Can you imagine a boreal hyena? Objectively awesome.

  • @jakejake708
    @jakejake7082 жыл бұрын

    Well I've now seen all your videos.. I'm ready for new ones

  • @pumpernickelplace
    @pumpernickelplace4 жыл бұрын

    appreciate this. thank you.

  • @JurassicClark96
    @JurassicClark964 жыл бұрын

    Lowkey wish we domesticated laughing bois instead of wolves... don't tell my dogs though!

  • @butterskywalker8785

    @butterskywalker8785

    4 жыл бұрын

    They're better than cats,they can laugh

  • @ZombieChimpanzee

    @ZombieChimpanzee

    4 жыл бұрын

    Why not domesticate both?

  • @helmaschine1885

    @helmaschine1885

    4 жыл бұрын

    Foxes laugh, and they have been partially domesticated in Russia

  • @zenolachance1181

    @zenolachance1181

    4 жыл бұрын

    They smell terrible

  • @butterskywalker8785

    @butterskywalker8785

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@zenolachance1181 don't you fucking dare bully those cute bois

  • @Starklar
    @Starklar4 жыл бұрын

    i'm in heaven. so much good content i haven't watched.

  • @MineCartRacerII
    @MineCartRacerII4 жыл бұрын

    I like your videos. I hope to see more in the future. Also, if you don't mind me asking, what's the name of the background music?

  • @mothlightmedia1936

    @mothlightmedia1936

    4 жыл бұрын

    The link to the music is in the description, however, the original will a be a bit different because i've edited it to fit the video.

  • @MineCartRacerII

    @MineCartRacerII

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mothlightmedia1936 Okay, thanks!

  • @dustinhamilton6207
    @dustinhamilton62073 жыл бұрын

    I had to do a paper on this and I used this video to help me so thank you

  • @papiwalrus3497
    @papiwalrus34973 жыл бұрын

    Hyenas are so freaking cool I love them

  • @anthonyhewitt9397
    @anthonyhewitt93974 жыл бұрын

    Great videos btw

  • @neub4321
    @neub43214 жыл бұрын

    You made no mention of hyena aggression, male hormones in female hyenas, and whether this trait was shared by related species. That would have been interesting.

  • @isaacb5968

    @isaacb5968

    4 жыл бұрын

    Make a better video then😂

  • @RainAngel111

    @RainAngel111

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately we can't learn that stuff from fossils

  • @ishrendon6435

    @ishrendon6435

    Жыл бұрын

    No evidence its another species. Extinction doesnt preserve hormones 😢

  • @ishrendon6435

    @ishrendon6435

    Жыл бұрын

    So far its just unique to hyenas but we dont know about others in the past. As far as we know its only unique to hyenas as we dont have any other living organism with the same phenomenon. Not to mention male hormones is just testosterone that is amped up in female hyenas. Remember both males and females have similar hormones its just one in mammals is elevated more in particular sexes. Particularly testosterone is typically higher in male mammals making them usually more aggressive sex .wouldnt be out of this world to realize it has happened to other species but it isnt known

  • @johngavin1175
    @johngavin11754 жыл бұрын

    Good vid man

  • @afifkhaja
    @afifkhaja2 жыл бұрын

    Terrific video. Could you make on the evolution of big cats?

  • @tuliomendiati7675
    @tuliomendiati76752 жыл бұрын

    WOW! Very interesting

  • @KondorOtto
    @KondorOtto3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for your excellent videos, can you please try to make possible to include subtitles in other languages and in English? It would be very useful for animalhistory lovers across the world. Thanks!

  • @patelfalak
    @patelfalak4 жыл бұрын

    Bro U make awesome videos , if U just extend them to 10 mins. They will be recommended to more people

  • @ferodrigues1211
    @ferodrigues12113 жыл бұрын

    6:32 this hyenas with the winter coat are very interesting.

  • @thomascorbett2936
    @thomascorbett29362 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting .

  • @ycamara9034
    @ycamara90342 жыл бұрын

    Interesting thank you bless

  • @liamredmill9134
    @liamredmill91343 жыл бұрын

    Its also interesting what they found in silesia in relation to canines(possibly becoming domesticated 20+ thousand years,and the feline/hyena was a menace to humans maybe for as long,and didn't have a base,or great solitary range like the cats and canines.i think organised humans in the world,drove them over the edge,in combo with the environmental hypothesis,and people pre domesticating and trapping all the big game ,that in the open was the end for them in most places of the world

  • @bethanybayer5598
    @bethanybayer55982 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @Samsen_
    @Samsen_3 жыл бұрын

    Do you think striped hyenas will expand their territories much like their ancestors did? They're the only living hyena today that live outside of Africa and in many other locations. I could see them drifting further up north and adapting if humans don't intervene. They're endangered and their habitats are shrinking due to human activity so like many animals they move onto different land. Also it's striking that hyenas still have their winter coats even though they tend to live in hotter climates.

  • @giga0298
    @giga02982 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @tm43977
    @tm439772 жыл бұрын

    Also the hyena met and battle with Lions for thousands of years.

  • @gji2797
    @gji2797 Жыл бұрын

    Lion:- Wanna hear some Facts? Hyena:- Yeah?! Lion:- You are more close to mongoose than a dog. Hyena:- XD XD (Eeeeee)

  • @ginnupdotcom
    @ginnupdotcom2 жыл бұрын

    @3:05 okay, what the love is that deer-like creature though, my friend?

  • @jerusha.mcfarland
    @jerusha.mcfarland2 жыл бұрын

    I was literally thinking of this topic in bed last night, and now it's at the top of my KZread feed. 0_o The algorithm strikes again...

  • @oguzm.1842
    @oguzm.18422 жыл бұрын

    tesekkür ederim

  • @cerberus6654
    @cerberus66544 жыл бұрын

    Early in this video (excellent by the way!) you show three modern cat-like animals including the genet cat and the civet cat but what was that dark one on the far left? I listened three times to when you named it but can't make out what it's called and I honestly don't think I know what it is!

  • @0trolocomas

    @0trolocomas

    4 жыл бұрын

    Binturong / bearcat!

  • @cerberus6654

    @cerberus6654

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@0trolocomas Thanks! Just when you think there's nothing new, along comes an animal you've never heard of before!

  • @Idri5
    @Idri54 жыл бұрын

    Hyenas have a stronger bite force than lions *

  • @SousukeAizen421

    @SousukeAizen421

    4 жыл бұрын

    *stronger proportional to their body weight, lions bite would still be more devastating though

  • @AnkhAnanku

    @AnkhAnanku

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Anti Fanboyism that’s what the video implies, but it’s not true. Hyenas have a bite force of 1100 psi, while lions have roughly half the bite force at 650 psi, relatively weak for a big cat.

  • @GradyIsEpic

    @GradyIsEpic

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AnkhAnanku I have heard this as well.

  • @2canines

    @2canines

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AnkhAnanku How rigorous are these tests really?

  • @thejestor9378

    @thejestor9378

    4 жыл бұрын

    2canines More than you would think.

  • @brianticas7671
    @brianticas76712 жыл бұрын

    Whats crazy is the hyena is smaller than other cat family members and yet their bite is more powerful.

  • @diplosbae
    @diplosbae Жыл бұрын

    Where did you get those maps of earths ocean levels millions of years ago? I’ve never seen an accurate depiction of Australia’s connection with southeast Asia

  • @tomlxyz
    @tomlxyz2 ай бұрын

    Wild that they're more related to felines but used to look more canines in the past

  • @tantibusdraws6165
    @tantibusdraws61653 жыл бұрын

    Somewhere in ice age Europe 50,000 years ago Banzai: Mufasa... Shanzi: *Shudders* Oooo....Do it again Banzai: MUFASA, MUFASA, MUFASA! Shanzi: Ooo...It tingles me. Scar: *Dies inside* I’m surrounded by idiots.

  • @pichchoco7866
    @pichchoco78664 жыл бұрын

    Convergence evolution is awsome

  • @michaelmurphy8736
    @michaelmurphy87364 жыл бұрын

    Just found this account and I fucking love it

  • @christopherfitch7705
    @christopherfitch77054 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting fozzleworth

  • @mothlightmedia1936

    @mothlightmedia1936

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @clauzellblackshear2057
    @clauzellblackshear20572 жыл бұрын

    Well the good thing is they are still here. What's mind boggling is that they been here for millions of years.

  • @quinnalexander3825
    @quinnalexander38252 жыл бұрын

    4:04 When you step into the wrong bathroom

  • @theambiance1815
    @theambiance18152 жыл бұрын

    When it comes to humans: They are from Africa to everywhere. When it comes all animals: They’re from everywhere to Africa.

  • @davis4555
    @davis45553 жыл бұрын

    I feel like hyenas are the Orcs and wolves are the Elves.

  • @olipardo1979
    @olipardo19793 жыл бұрын

    So Timon has more in common with the Hyenas than with Simba

  • @AwesomeYena
    @AwesomeYena4 жыл бұрын

    Interesting...

  • @malcolmcliff-du8qp
    @malcolmcliff-du8qp4 жыл бұрын

    Volume please.. no sound here..

  • @KaninTuzi
    @KaninTuzi2 жыл бұрын

    Honestly, a pre-historic RPG/adventure game would be lit af

  • @Rseal6969
    @Rseal6969 Жыл бұрын

    Wow 😮

  • @ESL-O.G.
    @ESL-O.G. Жыл бұрын

    Constructive criticism, your volume level is way way too low

  • @satoshiketchump
    @satoshiketchump3 жыл бұрын

    I would've appreciated it if you mentioned that Hyenas still live in the Indian subcontinent but its great video still