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The striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) is a species of hyena native to North and East Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. It is the only extant species in the genus Hyaena. It is listed by the IUCN as near-threatened, as the global population is estimated to be under 10,000 mature individuals which ...
The term "fursona" is a portmanteau of the words "furry" and " persona ". [ 1 ] The term was first used in 1997. [ 2 ] According to Fred Patten, it was common for attendants to use their real names or nicknames at ConFurence (world's first furry convention) in 1989. Around the early 90s, new attendants to the convention adopted personas for ...
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 hyenas vary in their folkloric and mythological depictions, depending on the ethnic group from ...
Monomaniac of Envy. Monomaniac of Envy (Monomane de l’envie), [1]: 4 also known by the name of Hyena of Salpêtrière,[2] Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy,[2] and Manic Envy,[3] is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Romantic artist Théodore Géricault. Painted as part of his series of ten portraits on the mentally ill ...
Werehyena is a neologism coined in analogy to werewolf for therianthropy involving hyenas. It is common in the folklore of the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Near East as well as some adjacent territories. Unlike werewolves and other therianthropes, which are usually portrayed as being originally human ...
Spotted Hyena, Crocuta crocuta. The scientific name of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) was taken from the mythological crocotta, [6] and there are some similarities in the description. Hyenas do have very powerful teeth and jaws, can digest a wide range of foods, are known to dig up human bodies for food, and can make unnervingly humanlike ...
In west Africa, the spotted hyena is primarily a scavenger who will occasionally attack domestic stock and medium-size antelopes in some areas. In Cameroon , it is common for spotted hyenas to feed on small antelopes like kob , but may also scavenge on reedbuck , kongoni , buffalo, giraffe, African elephant , topi and roan antelope carcasses.
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. It is currently the rarest species of hyena. [7] The largest remaining brown hyena population is ...