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A single spotted hyena can eat at least 14.5 kg of meat per meal, [20] and although they act aggressively toward each other when feeding, they compete with each other mostly through speed of eating, rather than by fighting as lions do. [21] Spotted hyenas can take less than two minutes to eat a gazelle fawn, [22] while a group of 35 hyenas can ...
Copulation in spotted hyenas is a relatively short affair, [76] lasting 4–12 minutes, [59] and typically only occurs at night with no other hyenas present. [76] The mating process is complicated, as the male's penis enters and exits the female's reproductive tract through her pseudo-penis rather than directly through the vagina, which is ...
The relationship between spotted hyenas and lions, in which each species steals the other's kills, [30] is a form of kleptoparasitism. [20] Cheetahs are common targets. Bears, coyotes and wolves are very opportunistic and all have this behavior. Crab-eating macaques have also exhibited kleptoparasitic behaviors
Hyenas do not regurgitate food for their young and male spotted hyenas play no part in raising their cubs, [44] though male striped hyenas do so. [ 51 ] The striped hyena is primarily a scavenger, though it will also attack and kill any animals it can overcome, [ 45 ] and will supplement its diet with fruit. [ 52 ]
The aardwolf (Proteles cristatus [3]) is an insectivorous hyaenid species, native to East and Southern Africa.Its name means "earth-wolf" in Afrikaans and Dutch. [4] [5] It is also called the maanhaar-jackal [6] [7] (Afrikaans for "mane-jackal"), termite-eating hyena [8] and civet hyena, based on its habit of secreting substances from its anal gland, a characteristic shared with the African civet.
Durophagy is the eating behavior of animals that consume hard-shelled or exoskeleton-bearing organisms, such as corals, shelled mollusks, or crabs. [1] It is mostly used to describe fish , but is also used when describing reptiles , [ 2 ] including fossil turtles, [ 3 ] placodonts and invertebrates, as well as "bone-crushing" mammalian ...
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 ...
Martial and tawny eagles, leopards, lions, jackals, spotted hyenas, and snakes prey upon the southern tree hyrax. In Rwanda, the most common predators are feral dogs. The limited amount of time the hyrax spends on the ground at night may be a predator avoidance strategy. Humans sometimes also eat the hyrax. [10]