Spotted hyenas live in large, mixed-sex clans with fairly stable social hierarchies-and the females are in charge.

斑点鬣狗生活在大型的雌雄混居的家族中，这种家族的社会等级相当稳定，而且由雌性主导。

Spotted hyenas could only climb the social ladder if they were able to maintain a strong alliance.

斑点鬣狗只有维持强大的联盟才能登上更高的社会等级。

Given those examples, it would seem that rank in spotted hyenas is fairly arbitrary.

从这些例子来看，斑点鬣狗的等级排列似乎相当随意。

And, despite their reputation, spotted hyenas prefer to dine on fresh meat, minimizing their contact with microbes.

同时，即使它们有这种名声，黑斑犬还是更愿意食用新鲜的肉，减少和微生物、细菌等的接触。

Strauss and colleagues collected data about five generations of four groups of wild spotted hyenas in Kenya that they observed over a 27-year period.

斯特劳斯和同事对肯尼亚四组野生斑点鬣狗的五代进行了27年的观察，并收集了数据。

Other animals that can't taste sweet include sea lions, spotted hyenas and harbor seals.

其他尝不出甜味的动物包括海狮、斑点鬣狗和斑海豹。

" The matrilineal hierarchies that we see in spotted hyenas are also found in a lot of Old World monkeys." Michigan State University biologist Eli Strauss.

“我们在斑点鬣狗身上看到的母系等级制度在很多旧大陆猴子身上也有发现。”密歇根州立大学生物学家 Eli Strauss。