The hyena would be the perfect emblem for radical feminism!
"Girls are particularly tenacious, because if they lose their rank, it
can have lifelong consequences, so they're constantly picking fights."
Here at the Smithsonian magazine:
www.smithsonianmag.com
there's an article about someone who's an expert:
http://tinyurl.com/5ehxqa
She's been studying hyenas for a long time and has overturned a few
mis-perceptions about them.
They're not cowardly at all - unlike the typical creationist we see
here in alt.atheism.
Hyenas are not scavengers - they kill about 95% of what they eat.
Lions scavenge from the hyenas!
That percentage isn't quite as good as atheists, who kill 100% of
creationist "arguments" and eat creationists alive
Most hyenas die violently. I wonder why a supposedly loving god would
deliberately design a system like that? Or could it be that it wasn't
designed, but evolved?
They're not the most intelligently designed of creatures:
"Perhaps the most perplexing question about hyenas is why females have
pseudopenises. The structures complicate mating and birth. The hyena's
reproductive canal is twice as long as that in a similarly sized
animal, and what's more, there's a hairpin turn halfway to the uterus.
"It's a long gantlet for sperm to run," says Holekamp. It's also an
ordeal from the other direction. Among the first-time mothers in
captivity, according to the Berkeley researchers, 60 percent of cubs
die during birth, most from suffocation after getting stuck in the
birth canal. Subsequent births are easier."
The dominant gender is the female - they run everything. "One gender
contradiction is the female spotted hyena's long clitoris, almost
indistinguishable from a penis, through which the animals urinate,
mate and even give birth. Scientists call the unusual organ, which is
capable of becoming erect, a pseudopenis or a peniform clitoris. To
further confuse matters, a female's labia are fused and made bulbous
by two fatty pads, creating the illusion of a scrotum."
I wonder why an honest god would design something deceitful like that,
especially when it's so dangerous? Or did it simply evolve?
There's more:
"...female spotted hyenas are bigger and more aggressive than males.
Every clan is a matriarchy ruled by an alpha female. In the clan's
strict power structure, adult males rank last. They must swallow abuse
even from the most obnoxious juveniles or risk violent punishment from
female coalitions. At a communal carcass, adult males eat last=97if
there's anything left. When a male kills dinner on his own, he must
gorge quickly before female clan members shove him aside."
Quite contrary to the LIES told by Ben Stein in the creationist
crockumentary "Expelled", this isn't an invention. It isn't something
that Charles Darwin set in motion. It's a fact of life on the African
plains.
There's more:
"At age 2 or 3 a male leaves his natal clan and wanders off to beg
acceptance into another clan. After vicious rejections, he eventually
succeeds and reaps his reward: brutal harassment as the clan's nadir,
one of the last in line for food and sex."
"...lions, which go out of their way to kill hyenas. The lions' motive
isn't clear, but it's not hunger; they won't eat a hyena."
I wonder why a god would design a system like that - unfair, cruel,
where the strong abuse the weak, and the weakest - even pups - are
left to die.
In short, the very thing which Stein lies about in "Expelled" was not
created by Darwin, but by a god - if you swallow the creationist LIES.
The article says, "Hyenas are proving to be very smart=97in some ways,
as smart as primates". Clearly they're smarter than creationists who
cannot even see reality when it smacks them in the face.
Budikka
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