Can a wolf mate with a hyena?

Evidence about hyena hybrids is sparse. As for breeding a hyena with a wolf, it seems impossible as hyenas are more related to the cat family and the wolf to dogs. Hence, a hybrid between these two is highly unlikely.
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Can hyenas crossbreed?

The hyena conceives by a wolf and brings forth Onolysum. Evidence for the occurrence of hyena hybrids is sparse, as the reader will judge from the information below. Crocuta crocuta [Spotted Hyaena] Lönnberg (1908) treated two forms of hyena as distinct species under two distinct scientific names.
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Can wolves mate with dingoes?

In most animals, hybridization between closely related species does not happen, or like female horses and male donkeys, produce mules -- usually non-fertile offspring. However, many canid species, including wolves, dingoes and dogs, can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
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What is a hyena mixed with?

The ancestors of the modern hyena were cat-like tree dwellers that spawned not only cats but civets, mongoose and binterong. So hyenas are in the sub-order feliformia, along with all modern felines.
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Is there such thing as a wolf hyena?

No dogs here! Hyenas are not members of the dog or cat families. Instead, they are so unique that they have a family all their own, Hyaenidae. There are four members of the Hyaenidae family: the striped hyena, the “giggly” spotted hyena, the brown hyena, and the aardwolf (it's a hyena, not a wolf).
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Who is stronger hyena or wolf?

A hyena would win a fight against a wolf. The hyena is faster, heavier, and stronger than the wolf, and those are the only two appreciable differences between these creatures. They're both similar in stature and speed, but the fight would be determined by which creature can deal fatal damage.
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Did hyenas evolve from wolves?

Around 10 million years ago, some hyaenids evolved into "running hyenas" who were better adapted to running down their prey like wolves than to crushing bones and scavenging; others became more like small wolves or jackals, pursuing a scavenging and rodent-hunting lifestyle.
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Do female hyenas have a PP?

All female spotted hyenas have functional penises. They use it pee, signal, anally mount males & females for dominance, and give birth. Intersex plumbing is found in ALL females of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) of Tanzania—in which the females have penises nearly indistinguishable from those of the males.
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Can hyena change gender?

Indeed, Pliny says, the critter is “popularly believed to be bisexual and to become male and female in alternate years.” In Aesop's fable “The Hyenas,” they “change their sex each year.” Even Ernest Hemingway called the hyena a “hermaphroditic self-eating devourer of the dead, trailer of calving cows, ham-stringer, ...
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Can hyena be a pet?

Perhaps not surprisingly, the answer is no, absolutely not. They're hyenas. They're not even friendly in “The Lion King”! That hasn't stopped some people from trying to domesticate them, though, with mixed results.
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Can a wolf mate with a jackal?

Jackal hybrids

The Wolf and Jackal can interbreed and produce fertile hybrid offspring, which are sometimes known as huskals. Coyote/Jackal Hybrids have also been bred as pets by Wolf-dog enthusiasts.
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Can a jackal mate with a dog?

Jackals are true members of the dog family and can actually interbreed with both domestic dogs and wolves.
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Can a coyote breed with a wolf?

It's known that wolves in the eastern United States can mate with coyotes—which could explain the presence of coyotelike mitochondrial DNA in the eastern wolves—but hybrids haven't been observed in the west.
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Why are hyenas so disliked?

There's plenty of literature claiming that hyenas are the undead and reincarnation of the devil. And it's not only literature that has created unnecessary fear around hyena. Movies have also cast hyena as the evil villain, with the Lion King being the box-office hit that reinforces the stereotype!
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Can dingoes breed with dogs?

Dingoes can interbreed with other breeds of domestic dogs. Dingo fence along the New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia borders.
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Are coyotes and hyenas related?

Hyenas are different from coyotes. They are not part of the dog family and are only distantly related to the cat family. Mongoose and civets are their closest relatives.
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What are the 52 genders?

The following are the 58 gender options identified by ABC News:
  • Agender.
  • Androgyne.
  • Androgynous.
  • Bigender.
  • Cis.
  • Cisgender.
  • Cis Female.
  • Cis Male.
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Do animals feel pleasure when they mate?

Really wild orgasms Not only do animals enjoy the deed, they also likely have orgasms, he said. They are difficult to measure directly but by watching facial expressions, body movements and muscle relaxation, many scientists have concluded that animals reach a pleasurable climax, he said.
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Do hyenas go for the balls?

A balanced food chain is vital, the officer revealed adding that it helps animals in the ecosystem balance roles. she said. She noted that owing to the fact that hyenas cannot hunt, they target loose hanging parts of the animals like testicles and tails.
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Why do hyenas laugh?

The “laughter” vocalization for which they are known is a high-pitched series of short gigglelike sounds. These sounds, rather than being associated with hyenas having a good time, are generally made when they are threatened or under attack. A hyena may also produce a laughterlike sound when it is frustrated.
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Are hyenas evil?

Loosely based on spotted hyenas of sub-Saharan Africa, they are out and out villains, totally evil, cowardly and aggressive. They are the allies of the evil uncle of the future lion king, Scar, and said to have wiped out all life in the land in which they live.
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What eats a hyena?

Predators of Hyenas include lions, leopards, and crocodiles. What is the average litter size for a Hyena? The average litter size for a Hyena is 3.
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