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First, for general information, hyenas are not dogs, the Canidae, as one might think. Instead, they have their own family, the Hyaenidae, which is actually closer to the cats, the Felidae. There are four species within the Hyaenids: the spotted, brown, and striped, as well as the aardwolf. The range of the spotted hyenas is strictly within Africa. They have one main foe, and that is the lions, which are responsible for up to 70% of their adult deaths. Lions will actually hunt and kill hyenas; and if hyenas find a lone female lion and significantly outnumber her, they will kill her. Interestingly though, hyenas will eat lions, but lions will not eat hyenas. Uniquely, they just kill them.
Another important general fact to know about the spotted hyena is their social structure. More will be noted about this; but, they live in groups known as clans. Normally, the clans are thirty to forty members, but can be as large as eighty or ninety.
Now, having noted this, let us begin examining some of these things that make the spotted hyena so dramatically anomalous from all creation. Prepare yourself, you are getting ready to discover some of the most bizarre things you have ever heard about an animal.
First, let us identify the prevailing issue that causes us to address the spotted hyena in context with the ill fate of the woman taking the place of the man. Remember, we are looking at Yahweh God’s creation testimony concerning this. One might then suspect that the spotted hyenas are a matriarchal society where the female rules, . . . and this is exactly what we find. In fact, spotted hyenas are matriarchy on steroids! Not only does the dominant female rule over the males, but the females are ordered according to what could be called a caste system, where each one of them occupies a specific social, hierarchical status that is strictly enforced. Every aspect of their daily lives are ruled by their individual ranking within that caste. And like any caste system, the female cubs born to any one of those mothers, are locked into that inherent status. Thus, a female offspring of the head matriarch will replace her mother upon her death.
And, this caste system has further highly determining consequences as well. How much food each member eats is dictated by their place in the caste. Those at the bottom eat least and last. Therefore, the lower in the caste, the less healthy they are, and the less likely their cubs are to survive. Again, welcome to God’s testimony of matriarchy on steroids!
So, in this severe matriarchal system, how do the males fare? There are many feminists who would love the outcome of the male spotted hyena. In fact, I’m surprised they do not use the spotted hyena for their mascot. Evidencing this, the following image adopted in the 1980s by feminists, could just as well have been their true and most fitting mascot, attested by Yahweh Himself. Click on this image to see its true fulfillment in feminism. (Click on it again to repeat it.)
Let’s put it this way: the only thing lower in the female caste system, . . . is being a male. While the chief matriarch is the zenith in the clan, any male is the nadir, the lowest place there is, and the one who suffers the most extreme adversity. Any male is dominated by all the females. It does not help the male either that, as with the black widow spiders and the phalaropes, the females are distinctly larger, and far more aggressive. In the photo to the left, you can see this obvious size difference in the mounting male. And, the males that are more likely to be allowed to mate with the females are passive and younger. In fact, it eventually comes down to which male is willing to put up with the abuse of the females. We see the same in society: dominant females tend to marry passive men whom they can control (when they do marry).
Gary Naler,
remnant bride 28 Comments [1/5/2016 3:06:12 PM]
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