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The size of cave hyenas varied depending on environment, with populations inhabiting colder climates having a larger body size than those inhabiting more temperate climates, an example of Bergmann's rule. [4] A 2017 study estimated that on average cave hyenas weighed approximately 88 kilograms (194 lb), around 60% heavier than living spotted ...
It is said that all hyenas are owned by witches, and that truly wild hyenas are non-existent. Lactating female spotted hyenas are said to be milked by their owners every night to make hyena butter, and are further used as mounts. When a witch acquires a hyena mount, he rides it to distant lands in order to bewitch victims and return safely home ...
Hyenas are known to have preyed on humans in prehistory: human hair has been found in fossilized hyena dung dating back 195,000 to 257,000 years. [70] Some paleontologists believe that competition and predation by cave hyenas (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) in Siberia was a significant factor in delaying human colonization of Alaska. Hyenas may have ...
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Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site (周口店北京人遗址), also romanized as Choukoutien, is a cave system in suburban Fangshan District, Beijing.It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus (Homo erectus pekinensis), dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the giant short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris.
The cave was discovered in 1954 and opened to the public in 1972. Temperature in the cave is around 7 °C (45 °F) with relative humidity between 92 and 97%. Jasovská Cave was partly opened to the public in 1846, making it the oldest publicly accessible cave in Slovakia. The lower parts of the cave were discovered from 1922 to 1924.
Isotopic analysis on cave lions by Hervé Bocherens and colleagues lead them to suggest that cave lions may have been solitary, due to cave lions shifting their diets after the disappearance of cave hyenas, carcasses being consumed the cave hyenas as well, suggests they were at a competitive disadvantage, and the scattering of isotopic data ...
Hyenas, also Hyènes, Senegalese film by Djibril Diop Mambéty based on Dürrenmatt's "Besuch der alten Dame" Hyenas, a supernatural horror film, written and directed by Eric Weston; Hyena, a British film; Hyena Filmproduktion, a film company founded by Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch in 1984