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Spotted hyenas can take less than two minutes to eat a gazelle fawn, [22] while a group of 35 hyenas can completely consume an adult zebra in 36 minutes. [23] Spotted hyenas do not require much water, and typically only spend 30 seconds drinking.
Spotted hyenas will sometimes follow jackals and wolves during the gazelle fawning season, as jackals and wolves are effective at tracking and catching young animals. Hyenas do not take to eating wolf flesh readily; four hyenas were reported to take half an hour in eating a golden wolf.
The spotted hyena, though it also scavenges occasionally, is an active pack hunter of medium to large sized ungulates, which it catches by wearing them down in long chases and dismembering them in a canid-like manner. Spotted hyenas may kill as many as 95% of the animals they eat. [53]
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 manner in which the hyenas eat the porridge on this occasion are believed to have oracular significance; if the hyena eats more than half the porridge, then it is seen as portending a prosperous new year. Should the hyena refuse to eat the porridge or eat all of it, then the people will gather in shrines to pray, in order to avert famine or ...
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Hyenas are opportunistic scavenger of human waste, bones, and dung and may forage on anthrax-infested carcasses without detrimental consequences. They can eat entire body of prey except hair and hooves. [4] The ecology of spotted hyenas are examined using different sampling techniques especially in livestock welfare. [4]