What is the closest relation to a hyena...?

Question

Can anyone tell me what is the Hyena's closest relative...............

Answer 1

Hyenas are members of the family hyaenidae,they are rather dog-like in appearance,but are actually more closely relatived to cats and viverridae(civets,mongooses)than they are to dogs.They share many things in common with the civet family to which they share the closest relation.One is that both hyenas and civet posess highly developed anal glands that are used for marking territory and for olfactory(scent) communication.The aad wolf is the closest to the civets because it eats insects.

Answer 2

As someone already mentioned, the aardwolf is the closest living relative to the hyenas.

It's a weird, termite-eating form of hyena, really. It's even in the same family (Hyenidae).

Within the carnivores, there are two vague branches of families - the dog/bear branch, which includes dogs, bears, pandas, raccoons, weasels and even seals and sea lions, and the cat branch, which includes the cats (including a couple of branches of extinct sabre-kitties), viverrids, and the hyenas.

So the closest relatives of hyenas amongst the other carnivore families are the other members of the cat branch. Closest would actually be the viverrids, such as mongoose, binturong, meerkats, civets, genets, and the fossa, and then the true cats themselves.

Here's a page with one version of the carnivore family phylogeny tree http://whozoo.org/mammals/Carnivores/carnivorephylogeny.htm

Answer 3

There are 3 species of hyena alive today: Spotted, Brown, and Striped. The closest animal to these is the Aardwolf, a mostly insectivorious fox-like African mammal. The other close "relatives" of hyenas are meerkats and mongooses, which are in the same group as weasels, badgers, wolvorines, minks, otters, ferrets and skunks.

Answer 4

Although hyenas bear some physical resemblance to wild dogs, they make up a separate biological family which is most closely related to Herpestidae (the family of mongooses and meerkats).

Answer 5

The African Wild Dog, it looks like a Hyena, but is more skinny than a Hyena. (and is slightly taller than one)

Answer 6

notwithstanding phylogenetically close to to tom cats and viverrids, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically reminiscent of dogs in diverse factors; both hyenas and dogs are non-arboreal, cursorial hunters which capture prey with their tooth somewhat than their claws. both eat their food instantly and would keep it, and their calloused ft with tremendous, blunt, non-retractible nails are made for operating and making sharp turns. notwithstanding, the hyenas' grooming, fragrance marking, defecating conduct, mating and parental behaviour are consistent with the behaviour of alternative feliforms. notwithstanding lengthy reputed to be cowardly scavengers, hyenas, surprisingly talked about hyenas, do in certain circumstances hunt for themselves, and performance been widely used to force off leopards or lionesses from their kills. Hyenas are regularly nocturnal animals, yet would challenge from their lairs contained in the early morning hours. apart from the truly social talked about hyena, hyenas are often no longer gregarious animals, although they might stay in kinfolk communities and congregate at kills

Answer 7

Aardwolf

Answer 8

The aardwolf.

Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

my son's father... no wait that would be a jack @ss... Honestly...I don't know is it part of the cat family or the dog family...