Nah, Canada.
I noticed that too and I was very confused. They seem very dog-like, and like you say reminiscent of wild dogs but thicker. Hmm I wonder, do they have retractable claws? Maybe not they are in their own family.It's kind of fucking with me that hyenas are on the cat branch. I've always thought of hyenas as dog-like, or maybe I'm just mentally conflating them with jackals and wild dogs since they all share the same general habitat, behavior, and diet.
Then I'm convinced the Grizzly and Silverback will become best buds and go on adventures together!Nah, Canada.
I noticed that too and I was very confused. They seem very dog-like, and like you say reminiscent of wild dogs but thicker. Hmm I wonder, do they have retractable claws? Maybe not they are in their own family.
That's a neat fact.
I suppose they have a pretty square jaw like the bigger cats though more for eating bones than suffocating prey. Though they are just related, not actually cats but their own thing, Hyenidae.
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/spotted-hyena
They're pig-whales. Hippos are artiodactyls - or even-toed ungulates, meaning they bear weight on two of their five toes. Their closest relatives are pigs and cetaceans, aka whales, while giraffes, bovids, deer and antelope, goats and sheep, etc are a little more distant. Rhinos, meanwhile, are perissodactyls - or odd-toed ungulates, related to horses and tapirs. Elephants, meanwhile, are not ungulates at all but afrotheres, a unique clade of animals named so due to many of their species living or originating on the continent; their closest relatives are sea cows (manatees and dugongs), and are more distantly related to hyraxes, aardvarks, and the golden mole.