BEASTARS - Vol. 14 Ch. 123 - Our Tails, Afterimages Etched into Our Skulls

Also, am I the only one that thinks that Vos, the fennec, looked like a tiny boss in the color page? "They may all be big and somewhat scary, but I'm the one that calls the shots"
 
@miyako19 Technically, that makes hyenas feliforms, but not felines. There are several "feli--" words and each of them requires a different degree of closeness to cats on the evolutionary tree.

(click spoiler if you're a systematics nerd)

Hyenas, mongooses, and civets are feliforms, but not felids or felines.

Lions, tigers and leopards are feliforms and also felids, but not felines.

Cheetahs, cougars, and domestic cats are all feliforms, felids, and felines.

There's a similar distinction between "caniform," canid," and "canine" for the "doglike" carnivores. Bears are caniforms; fennec foxes are both caniforms and canids; wolves are caniforms, canids and canines.

And between "hominoid," "hominid," "hominine", and "hominin" for the "humanlike" primates, i.e. the apes. Gibbons are hominoids; gorillas and orangutans are both hominoids and hominids; chimpanzees are hominoids, hominids, and hominines; Lucy is a hominoid, hominid, hominine and hominin.

Of course, reality is more complicated than human language, and we run out of words long before we've named every evolutionary group at every level. But that's why we invented cladistics!
 
@kirin-kun

One of the major functions of the brain is inhibition. Brain damage like dementia can result in loss of inhibition which can cause very embarrassing episodes. One can argue though that this is basic natural instincts that are starting to show.

https://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2014/07/what-to-do-about-loss-of-inhibition-and.html
 
Room 701 is The Official GOOD BOYS CLUB. I LOVE THEM.

Also, even though genetically (?) hyenas may be closer to felines, much of their behavior (hunting, using teeth as primary weapons, no retractable claws) is closer to canines. At least that's what I Googled. Maybe this hyena is most comfortable with canines.
 
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