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The brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea), also called strandwolf, [4] is a species of hyena found in Namibia, Botswana, western and southern Zimbabwe, [5] southern Mozambique and South Africa. [6] It is the only extant species in the genus Parahyaena .
The European form was similar in appearance to modern populations, but was larger, being comparable in size to the brown hyena. [10] The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) diverged from the striped and brown hyena 10 million years ago. [11] Its direct ancestor was the Indian Crocuta sivalensis, which lived during the Villafranchian. [12]
Spotted hyena with a wildebeest skeleton in Karatu, Arusha, Tanzania. The spotted hyena is the most carnivorous member of the Hyaenidae. [13] Unlike its brown and striped cousins, the spotted hyena is primarily a predator; this has been shown since the 1960s. [106]
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Like most predators, hyena attacks tend to target women, children, and infirm men, though both species can and do attack healthy adult males on occasion. The spotted hyena is the more dangerous of the two species, being larger, more predatory, and more aggressive than the striped hyena. The brown hyena and aardwolf are not known to prey on humans.
Hyenas are large, powerful animals, up to 80 kg (176 lb) and represent one of the most prolific large carnivorans on the planet. The aardwolf is much smaller and is a specialised feeder, eating mainly harvester termites. Family Herpestidae (mongooses, kusimanses, and the meerkat) has 32 species. Previously, these were placed in the family ...
The other family-imperiled-by-rampaging-beasts movie this weekend, “Endangered Species” is different from “A Quiet Place Part II” in many ways, particularly in that its characters cannot ...
Spotted hyena mask from Burkina Faso, Musée barrois Spotted hyena being fed in Harar, Ethiopia. In Africa, the spotted hyena is usually portrayed as an abnormal and ambivalent animal, considered to be sly, brutish, necrophagous and dangerous. It further embodies physical power, excessiveness, ugliness, stupidity, as well as sacredness. Spotted ...