Are hyenas related to lions

Answer 1

Hyenas are more related to cats than dogs.

Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Carnivora > Feliformia > Felidae > Cats

Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Carnivora > Feliformia > Hyaenidae > Hyenas

Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Carnivora > Caniformia > Canines > Dogs

Answer 2

Using a loose definition of the word related, hyenas are more closely related to cats than to dogs.

All three families fall under the order Carnivora, meat-eating mammals, which is split into two sub-orders: Feliformia and Caniformia.

Cats and hyenas are classified under Feliformia; dogs, bears, and sea lions are grouped in the latter. Hyenas look and act more like dogs because of Convergent evolution, independently developing characteristics to an unrelated species due to similar environmental factors.

(Source: I went to college, and a museum once.)

Answer 3

Hyenas are related to cats right? Wrong. I think they are related to dogs. It's just like lions. Scientists think lions are related to cats, but can they climb? No. Do they meow? No. ( Yes, other wild cats can meow.) Hyenas look like dogs, act like them, bark like them, and howl and hunt like them. There is no way hyenas are cats.

Answer 4

No an hyena is in the dog family and resembles a dog.

Answer 5

No. They're in their own family and are not part of the Canidae.

Answer 6

Yes.