Is a hyena related most to a dog or a cat? or something else altogether?

Answer 1

Hyenas are more closely related to cats than to dogs.

They belong to the order carnivora, suborder feliformia, order hyaenidae.

The feliformia include cats (felidae), mongooses (herpestidae) and civets and genets (viverridae).

On the basis of both cladistics (the classification of species by shared characteristics) and on the basis of genetics they are far more closely related to cats than to dogs.

Answer 2

Neither, related to mongooses and meerkats -- read below from from Wikipedia:

Although hyenas look like rather large wild dogs, they make up a separate biological family which is most closely related to Herpestidae (the family of mongooses and meerkats). The hyena has one of the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom and an adult of the species has only the large cats of the family Felidae (Lions, Tigers, etc.) to fear. An adult hyena's bite is capable of being equivalent to 800 lbs. of pressure and can be used to crush the bones of dead animals

Answer 3

Spotted hyenas are the largest member of the family Hyaenidae. This family also includes three other hyena species, the aardwolf (found in south, east and northeast Africa); the striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena), found in northern Africa, southwest Asia and India; and the brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea), which is found in limited areas of southern Africa, except most of South Africa.* Many researchers consider hyenas the evolutionary 'link' between dogs and cats but more closely related to cats.

Answer 4

According to The Smithsonian Institution Animal book page 206, Hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs and they are also related to civets and genets (1).

Answer 5

The hyena is Africa's most common large carnivore. Of the three species of hyena in Africa, only the spotted hyena and the shy and much rarer, striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) are found in East Africa. The smaller, and even shyer brown hyena (Hyaena brunnea) occurs only in southern Africa.
Spotted hyenas are the largest member of the family Hyaenidae. This family also includes three other hyena species, the aardwolf (found in south, east and northeast Africa); the striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena), found in northern Africa, southwest Asia and India; and the brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea), which is found in limited areas of southern Africa. Many researchers consider hyenas the evolutionary 'link' between dogs and cats but more closely related to cats.

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Answer 6

Hyenas' maximum closest relative is the mongoose. they could be extra on the problem of cats than dogs, yet they're on the problem of all 3 finally. Like dogs, they have the visual allure and they behave in dogs habit. Like cats, they lick themselves the same way, women are commonly used to purr even as feeding the cubs, and the toddler hyenas are referred to as cubs extremely of domestic dogs. Then, Hyenas and Mongooses have shared a extra recent person-pleasant ancestor than the cats, so as that confirms and consequences contained in the Hyena being the nearest relative of the mongoose, and the farthest relative of the dogs.

Answer 7

Hyenas are part of the canine family, so they're most closely genetically related to dogs.

Answer 8

It is related to the canine(dog} family with the most powerful jaws on any animal.

Answer 9

A cat

Answer 10

Hyeanas r different from dogs n cats they belong to hyeanidae here as dogs blong to canidae n cats to felidae