Hyenas bear a close resemblance to dogs but are more related to the cat family than the canine. Either way, An hyena is neither a cat nor a dog.

It is smaller than a lion, slightly taller/ bigger than a leopard and has one of the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom. That simply means that if it bites your hand, that hand is no longer yours - blood, bone and skin.

Hyenas eat even the horns and hoofs of its victims.

So how does an animal smaller than the Lion steal meat/food from it?

First, let's talk about how it steals from the cheetah and the Leopard.

I once watched a leopard kill an antelope, and on sighting a hyena, it tried to climb the tree with its kill. But the tree was not near enough, and it can’t outrun the Hyena carrying the dead meat.

So it stood its ground ready to fight. Usually, if it was two hyenas, the Leopard would abandon the meat and run. But at that moment, it was one on one.

The Leopard is faster and has sharper claws than the Hyena. The jaws of the Hyena is supported by a thick skull.

So the Hyena did not bother to start a catfight with the Leopard. It just head-butted the Leopard. The first time, the second time and the Leopard ran away. 

Why head-butt? 

If the Hyena had started the fight using its claws and mouth, the Leopard would have easily slashed its throat. But by head-butting, the Hyena protected its throat and in the same move, used one of its strongest parts, its skull, to daze the Leopard.

In another scene, four cheetahs were eating an animal they just caught, and a Hyena came calling. The cheetahs tried to chase the Hyena away. But it only took one step back, two steps forward. After a while, the Cheetahs left the meat for the hyena: no attack, no fight, just submission.

Why did the Cheetahs give up like that?

Well, because cheetahs are built light, and their lives and hunting depend on their speed.

Any injury to the Cheetah means it will die of hunger. The Cheetah can't afford an injury, and it is not heavy enough to withstand heavy bruising.

So any predator bigger than the Cheetah will chase it away. The Hyena knows this and uses it time and time again.

Four things to decipher from the above are structure, skills, system and strategy.

The Hyena has fighting skills; it has a strategy when faced with other predators. His strategy is based on the knowledge of self, knowledge of the market and knowledge of competitors. It has a structure; team/collaborators/ community/company and each person understands and implements the system (system here means process flow).

So how do these four things work when the Hyena takes on the Lion?

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