If hyenas go into a cave, do they become lowyenas?
Posted on 10/05/2021 9:13:21 PM PDT by blueplum
A mountain of human remains and animal carcases have been found in Saudi Arabia's Umm Jirsan, a vast underground tunnel that spreads for more than than 40 miles created by a river of lava
...Researchers found the gruesome mountain in Saudi Arabia's Umm Jirsan lava tube, which is thought to be the longest network of its kind in the country, measuring 4,900 feet long and around 26 to 29 feet.
The "extremely dense accumulation of bones" was found on the lava tube's western passage...
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Though the nearly mile-long lava tube was discovered in the mid-2000s, earlier researchers didn’t venture too deeply into the cave. (A previous team said they heard growling in the lava tubes, a bone-chilling indication that the threatened hyena population in Saudi Arabia might still have a happy home in remote reaches of the country.)
Yeah, nah, I'm not going in there.
Eek! Looks like something from “Lord of the Rings”. Here is hoping the hyenas dragged all those bones in after the fact.
If hyenas go into a cave, do they become lowyenas?
It wasn’t hyenas. It was Ghuls.
Hyenas often scavenge their meals, so they probably didn’t kill their human prey, but rather, dug up cadavers from nearby burials and devoured them in this underground den, scientists recently reported.
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That kind of thing chaps my behind.
It’s not a zero-sum game. Scavengers will hunt and kill, and hunter-killers will scavenge.
If they had squirrels or porcupines over there, no one would have ever found these.
Like an H.P. Lovecraft novella...............
I don’t think I’d be hanging out in that “lava tube” with all those bones without some fairly massive firepower with me.
LOL! What’s he do, nibble yer bum?
That’s where children’s nightmares come from. Genetic memory is required for survival with a sense of danger when confronted with certain situations. My opinion only-no scientific data or study.
40 miles or 4900 feet. The writing could be more clear.
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