/prog/ - Hyena [Part 2]

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-23 18:04

Latin name: Hyaena

Other names: Hiena, Hienne, Hyene, Iena, Luvecerviere, Yena, Yenne

A beast that eats human corpses and changes sex

Aesop's Fables [6th century BCE] (Aesop: The Complete Fables (London, 1998) Temple 340):

It is told that hyenas change their sex, one year being male and the next year female. One day a male hyena tried to perform an unnatural sex act with a female, who told him to remember that what he did to her this year would be done to him next year. (Temple 341): A female hyena wanted to have sex with a male fox, but the fox rejected her, saying that he could not be sure whether she would become his girlfriend or boyfriend.

Name: Anonymous 2009-11-23 18:42

Hyena butter is a secretion from the anal gland of hyenas used to mark territory and to identify individuals by odor. The gooey substance is spread onto objects within the territory of the hyena by rubbing their posterior against the object they mark.^[1][2][3]

African legends state that witches would ride hyenas and use a gourd full of hyena butter as fuel for the torches they carried through the night.^[4]

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_{1. ^ Livingstone's Africa: Perilous Adventures and Extensive Discoveries in the Interior of Africa By David Livingstone Page 41 published 1872 by Hubbard bros. No ISBN number

   2. ^ With Forks and Hope: An African Notebook By Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley Page 84 1964 published by W. Morrow Original from the University of California Digitized Feb 15, 2007. Accessed July 10 2007

   3. ^ Chemical Ecology of Vertebrates By Dietland Müller-Schwarze Page 154 2006 Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521363772

   4. ^ Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa By Edward Henry Winter, John Middleton, Dr John Beattie Published by Routledge 2004 Page 167 ISBN 0415330734}