Hyena's and Pit Bulls

[myron21]

This is a little bit off the wall, but did anyone see a documentary (shown recently on BBC2) where they showed a clip of an African town and a lot of the guys had Hyena' s with heavy duty chains for leads and iron link muzzles, they were strutting around in a similar fashion to say a skin head with a pit bull.  Anyway my question is, just how dangerous are these animals in relation to say a pit bull?

[mystress]

Hi myron,

This IS an interesting question,if easy to answer.

The Hyena is undoubtedly far more dangerous than a Pit Bull, given that it is a completely wild animal. I think the documentary you saw must have been "faked" for effect,because nobody could keep a hyena as a pet,not even from a cub;they would be far too unpredictable!

A hyena is bold,strong(one of the strongest bites in the animal kingdom) brave (it will scare a pride of lions off of their kill) and cunning (they work in packs).

IF the documentary WAS real, then there will not be ma,y persons left in that town soon!

[orange-gnome]

Hi I happen to disagree slightly! Hyenas most definately are more dangerous than pitbulls easily! However I don't believe that nobody could ever keep one as a pet from a pup!!
Every animal is not only a product of its genetics but also of its upbringing, nature and nurture. Of course you could never trust it 100% but its possible with someone who has lots of animal knowledge and experience to raise one.
After all there are people who keep all sorts of wild animals as pets, bears, wolves, lions, cougars etc!

[rinkytink]

 

In terms of bite force the Pit Bull is a bit of a wuss really. These figures are apparently from National Geographic Channel series Animal Bite Force:

Pitbull pressure bite was 238 lbs
German Shepherd bite was 240 lbs
Wild Dogs bite force was 317 lbs
Rottweiler bite force was 328 lbs
Lion bite force was very close to 700 lbs
Hyena's bite force was 1000 lbs
Snaping Turtle bite force was 1004 lbs
Nile Crocodile bite force was 2500 lbs

A human can bite to a maximum force of about 170 lbs and it is estimated that the T-Rex could have had a bite force of around 3300 lbs !

[woofgang]

poor hyenas!!

[Chillum]

see a pic of these nutters here

[myron21]

Thanks mate, I was starting to think I had dreamed it.

[rinkytink]

 

RE: Picture:

What a bunch of complete w*n*ers !