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    instead of Ethiopic characters. The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), also known as the laughing hyena, is a hyena species, currently classed as the sole...
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    four extant species are the striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena), the brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea), the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), and the aardwolf...
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    The spotted hyena is the most carnivorous member of the Hyaenidae. Unlike its brown and striped cousins, the spotted hyena is primarily a predator rather...
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    sexes; the genetic makeup of female spotted hyenas "are clearly distinct" from male spotted hyenas. Female spotted hyenas have a clitoris 90 percent as long...
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    cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea and Crocuta crocuta ultima), also known as the Ice Age spotted hyena, are paleosubspecies of spotted hyena known...
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    (28–31 in) and the tail is 25–35 cm (9.8–13.8 in) long. Unlike the larger spotted hyena, there are no sizable differences between the sexes, although males...
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    The spotted hyena has a long history of interaction with humanity; depictions of the species exist from the Upper Paleolithic period, with carvings and...
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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...
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    the female spotted hyena's unique urogenital system, which looks more like a penis rather than a vagina, early naturalists thought hyenas were hermaphroditic...
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    Written records indicate that spotted hyenas have been present in the walled Ethiopian city of Harar for at least 500 years, where they sanitise the city...
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  • 20 percent of the bears' population), scientists state that female spotted hyenas are the only non-intersex female mammals devoid of an external vaginal...
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  • pseudo-penis appears to be simply for display, though the spotted hyena is an exception: the female spotted hyena urinates, copulates, and gives birth through her...
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    Spotted hyenas are widely distributed in Ethiopia specifically in the eastern parts like Harar and Somali Region. They also dwell in urban areas like Addis...
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    name of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) was taken from the mythological crocotta, and there are some similarities in the description. Hyenas do have very...
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    African wild dog (redirect from Hyena dog)
    cooperative hunting to exhaust them. Its natural competitors are lions and spotted hyenas: the former will kill the dogs where possible whilst the latter are...
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    Crocuta (category Hyenas)
    Crocuta is a genus of hyena containing the largest extant member of the family, the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta). Several fossil species are known...
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    Cheetah (redirect from Spotted cheetah)
    rarely been observed scavenging kills; this may be due to vultures and spotted hyena adroitly capturing and consuming heavy carcasses within a short time...
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    Pachycrocuta (redirect from Giant hyena)
    relative to modern hyenas is debated. A 2008 study suggested that it was most closely related to the spotted hyena among living hyenas. Conversely, in a...
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    microbes. Although both species of hyena contain fermentative bacteria, the microbes found in the anal gland of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) differ from...
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  • intense feeding competition, aggression can escalate to siblicide. Spotted hyena aggression demonstrates how facultative siblicide can be triggered by...
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  • Malawi Terror Beast (category Hyenas)
    The Malawi terror beast refers to a possibly rabid spotted hyena which killed at least three people and severely injured 16 others in the central Dowa...
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    The rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) is one of the cat family's smallest members, of which historical records are known only from India and...
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    hyenas and lions feed upon are killed by hyenas rather than lions. Carrion is thought to provide a large part of lion diet. Lions and spotted hyenas occupy...
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    difficult to determine the sex of spotted hyenas until sexual maturity, when they may become pregnant. When a female spotted hyena gives birth, she passes the...
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    the maanhaar-jackal (Afrikaans for "mane-jackal"), termite-eating hyena and civet hyena, based on its habit of secreting substances from its anal gland...
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    Leopard (redirect from Spotted Leopard)
    Africa, it is part of a large predator guild with lions, cheetahs, spotted and brown hyenas, and African wild dogs. The leopard is dominant only over the cheetah...
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  • San Diego. "Animal Bytes: Spotted Hyena". San Diego Zoo. Retrieved 8 January 2013. Schmidtke, Mike. "Hyaena brunnea: brown hyena". Animal Diversity Web....
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    (2014). "Development of the external genitalia: perspectives from the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)". Differentiation. 87 (1): 4–22. doi:10.1016/j.diff...
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  • The Lion King (category Animated films about hyenas)
    Lands. There, Simba and his best friend, Nala, are chased by three spotted hyenas named Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed. Mufasa is alerted by his majordomo, the...
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    sanctuary owner who works with African lions, black leopards, spotted hyenas and striped hyenas. Kevin Richardson was born in the Nightingale Clinic in Johannesburg...
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