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Hyenas (French: Hyènes) is a 1992 Senegalese film adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Swiss-German satirical tragicomedy play The Visit (1956), [1] directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty. The intimate story of love and revenge parallels a critique of neocolonialism and African consumerism .
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 .
Meanwhile, hyenas approach Sita and her cubs, but the brave mother cheetah, having already lost two cubs to them, does not back away; sure enough, she attacks them fearlessly, not letting them anywhere near her cubs. Finally, the hyenas give up the fight and leave – Sita's bravery has kept the remaining cubs alive and free from danger.
Confusion still persisted over the exact taxonomic nature of the hyena family in general, with most European travelers in Ethiopia referring to hyenas as "wolves". This partly stems from the Amharic word for hyena, ጅብ ( jɨbb ), which is linked to the Arabic word ذئب ( dhiʾb ) 'wolf'.
Here's what it's like to visit the Ngorongoro Crater, which is featured in an episode of the new National Geographic show 'Queens,' narrated by Angela Bassett.
Generally though, hyenas were hunted more as pests than sporting quarries; their scavenging damages skulls, skins and other articles from hunter's camps, which made them unpopular among sportsmen. [56] In the Soviet Union, hyena hunting was not specially organised. Most hyenas were caught incidentally in traps meant for other animals. [57]
Hyenas is a 2011 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Eric Weston. [2] The film stars Costas Mandylor , Meshach Taylor , Christa Campbell , Derrick Kosinski , Joshua Alba, Christina Murphy and Amanda Aardsma.
In 2008, the film was restored in 2K by the Cineteca di Bologna/L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with the Martin Scorsese-founded World Cinema Project. [13] In 2013, the restoration of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection , as part of the Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project box set. [ 14 ]