"The Pack"

[escritoireazul]

Quick question about pack structure and BtVS.



Hey, question. In "The Pack" (BtVS season one), why, in the power walk scene, are the guys up front? Aren't hyena packs led by a female? The guys are the ones in charge throughout this episode, and it drives me nuts.

Yes, I have these thoughts a lot, okay? Humans as animals was one of my favorite things to study--the whole dodgeball scene in here cracked me up, because I'd been doing theories of humans acting like animals in gym throughout school. My comparison at one point was young lions not quite confident in all their strengths but feeling pretty indestructible.

Also, that pig was too cute. I'm terribly sad they ate him, and now I want a pet pig. And a pet hyena. Except obviously not in the same place.

Comments

[faechick.livejournal.com]

This is random, and not really on topic, but female hyenas have genitals that hang on the outside, like males, and are larger than the males. So before anyone really studied them people'd mistake the females for males. Also, they are more closely related to the mongoose than any other animal, and more closely related to the cat than to the dog.