Help! My hyena keeps fighting w/ the neighbor's baboon!
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Sad pics. But unfortunately what others do in there countries is out of our control. They use them to make money and get attention. They walk the streets with them and sedate the hyena's enough to calm them, they muzzle them for affects and not protection. They take them out of there burrows as pups and hand raise them 
. Yes hyena's can be dangerous but do you know how dangerous baboon's are? They are carnivors as well and a pack of baboons can kill a hyena. Some people in foreign countries make me so angry with how they treat animals thats why I try to pretend they don't exist. Sick, Sick, Sick
. Yes hyena's can be dangerous but do you know how dangerous baboon's are? They are carnivors as well and a pack of baboons can kill a hyena. Some people in foreign countries make me so angry with how they treat animals thats why I try to pretend they don't exist. Sick, Sick, Sick Hmm. Sounds like a third world country circus to me really.
I mean, they keep elephants and tigers and bears in the circus. These are just exotic animals that are in their area. Not that it's right but I mean... it's not something totally unheard of.
It's a circus. In North America we do the exact same thing, but the people here make a hellofa lot of money doing it.
I mean, they keep elephants and tigers and bears in the circus. These are just exotic animals that are in their area. Not that it's right but I mean... it's not something totally unheard of.
It's a circus. In North America we do the exact same thing, but the people here make a hellofa lot of money doing it.
Honestly, I can understand where the OP was coming from with his post. He wasn't trying to say, "Ha ha, a muzzled hyena, HILARIOUS!!" It was more like . . . the dead parrot sketch from Monty Python. An exaggeration of a common training issue (dog-on-dog aggression) with an unexpected twist. (Who expects to see a baboon and hyena on a leash? Not me!)
Getting back to reality, I feel bad for the hyenas, wild animals who should have been left in their dens and allowed to stay wild. On the other hand, it sounds like hyenas (or at least these particular hyenas) are NOT used for dog fights, but instead mostly as advertising for the fetish charms and for fake "wrestling" with the men. Like someone else said, a third-world circus. Honestly, many of the problems I have with the hyenas could be applied to American circuses too . . . Elephants were meant to roam around for miles and miles, not be crammed into a truck and driven around from city to city while being forced to do stupid tricks.
Getting back to reality, I feel bad for the hyenas, wild animals who should have been left in their dens and allowed to stay wild. On the other hand, it sounds like hyenas (or at least these particular hyenas) are NOT used for dog fights, but instead mostly as advertising for the fetish charms and for fake "wrestling" with the men. Like someone else said, a third-world circus. Honestly, many of the problems I have with the hyenas could be applied to American circuses too . . . Elephants were meant to roam around for miles and miles, not be crammed into a truck and driven around from city to city while being forced to do stupid tricks.
Having seen those pictures before, on an offroad sight and more pointing from a firearms sight, the OPs original post angerred me because of the text that precluded the pics.
I do not find the humor in the OPs post, especially as the OP is not from the area the pics where taken or from any where near the region in question.
Ive never been to a circus or had the opportounity to do so, nor am I inclined to visit one. I will voice my opinion that Maggie the Elephant should remain in the Anchorage Zoo, I would support a companion elephant for her but not a single replacement for her when she passes as Annabelle did years past.
I am not a fan of wild animals being subdued for entertainment purposes, at least zoos try to emulate the native habitats.
*edit* With Maggie the elephant our zoo is not the best place for her but they are really trying to keep her happy and healthy, and she will be relocated before she is at risk.
I do not find the humor in the OPs post, especially as the OP is not from the area the pics where taken or from any where near the region in question.
Ive never been to a circus or had the opportounity to do so, nor am I inclined to visit one. I will voice my opinion that Maggie the Elephant should remain in the Anchorage Zoo, I would support a companion elephant for her but not a single replacement for her when she passes as Annabelle did years past.
I am not a fan of wild animals being subdued for entertainment purposes, at least zoos try to emulate the native habitats.
*edit* With Maggie the elephant our zoo is not the best place for her but they are really trying to keep her happy and healthy, and she will be relocated before she is at risk.
Blue- I wasn't speaking of zoos, although sometimes their conditions can be less than satisfactory. Of course there are zoos that are great.
I was speaking of circus'. When I was much younger, one visited my town, and my family went. The horses were abused, we saw them getting whipped "off stage", the elephants had huge rips and gashes in their ears, (I did ride it), there was a bear literally with a tutu on, and a tiger, that was in horrible condition that was forced to do tricks for the audience.
I have never been to a zoo, where the animals acted like that! They try their best to please the spectators by getting as "close as possible' but maintaining the animals habitat and personal bubble.
I was speaking of circus'. When I was much younger, one visited my town, and my family went. The horses were abused, we saw them getting whipped "off stage", the elephants had huge rips and gashes in their ears, (I did ride it), there was a bear literally with a tutu on, and a tiger, that was in horrible condition that was forced to do tricks for the audience.
I have never been to a zoo, where the animals acted like that! They try their best to please the spectators by getting as "close as possible' but maintaining the animals habitat and personal bubble.