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Hyenas
With three species generally recognized, the hyena is a carnivorous, chiefly nocturnal mammal of the Old World family Hyaenidae. Although dog like in appearance, hyenas are more closely related to the cat family, Felidae, than to the dog family, Canidae.
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What ancient culture ate hyenas?
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wow, that is something, I thought that Chinese people ate weird animals because I always hear more about that kind of thing rather than Africans.. I am sorry to question but, why would civalized people do such a thing?? Creepy..?!
What is a female hyena called?
A female hyena is typically called a female hyena, and although as a doglike species you could also use the term for dogs, most articles refer to female hyenas as females.
Interestingly, the spotted hyena females outweigh the males and are the leaders, but this is not true with other hyenas.
A hyena is a member of the dog family true or false?
Hyenas are part of the order Carnivora, like dogs, but unlike dogs, are part of the suborder Feliformia. Thus, they are more closely related to cats, mongoose, and meerkats than to dogs. They look like dogs and fill a similar niche to dogs, thus representing a good example of convergent evolution.
hailey was here.
Why does a hyena symbolize humor?
I believe it's because hyenas have a howl that is more sounding like a laugh.
Hyenas' will typically always eat meat. The reason they only eat meat is because they are considered as being carnivorous.
It eats many foods like dead animals
Hyenas are scavengers but are capable of hunting there own prey. The Striped Hyena is an omnivore while all other Hyenas are Carnivores.
Hyenas eat meat so they are carnivores, they hunt down their prey,an animal such as zebras getting hunted by a predator the hunter, and kill them and eat them. also they eat carrion bones, vegtable matter, and animal droppings
hyena eat any animals that they could find
Hyenas are carnivore, which means they eat meat. They usually hunt their prey or eat what's left from a lion kill. Some common foods are zebras and other wild beasts. Sometimes, a hyena may eat animals droppings or bits of vegetation. However, this is very rare. Hyenas have strong teeth to cruch bones.
Spotted hyenas tend to eat wildebeests, gazelles and other ungulates, young rhinos, and zebra.
Hyenas eat meat so they are carnivores, they hunt down their prey,an animal such as zebras getting hunted by a predator the hunter, and kill them and eat them.
Hyenas are mostly carnivorous, though some species are known to occasionally eat plants.
Hyenas are successful hunters in groups or alone and will even try to catch fish, birds, and bugs in lakes. They are known to be scavengers, but few people know that lions scavenge more often than hyenas.
Wildebeest
hyena eat alot of things that are in the wild like gazelle, humans, deer, Etc.
The male hyena does not have a knot, therefore they do not knot.
yes and meat too, but sometimes they normally eat after lions, tigers, leopards and those animals.
What is more dangerous a hyena or a jackal?
Either one can kill you. Hyenas are a bit more territorial and aggressive.
Do brown hyenas and koalas live in the grasslands of south Africa?
Hyenas do, but koalas do not.
Koalas are endemic to Australia alone. They are found in the wild in the eastern states. Koalas also cannot live in grasslands, as grasslands do not support the eucalyptus trees on which koalas depend for food and shelter.
Lynxes eat hares, fish and birds.
In the wild Canadian Lynx are strictly carnivorous. They eat: leporids (especially the snowshoe hare); deer and other ungulates. They eat rodents, birds and fish and carrion.
And little deers and small fishes. Mostly Canadian piranhas if lucky.
If you don't understand some of these words:
leporids are hares and rabbits.
Ungulates are most animals with hooves, but I think elephants, rhinos, and hippos are also ungulates.
Carrion is the carcass of a dead animal.
rabbit, fish, fox, sheep, squirrels, mice, turkeys, other birds, goats, deer, & etc...
The lynx is a feline that preys on small animals, including hare, squirrel, fish, mice, and birds. There are different lynx species found in North America, Europe, and Asia. In North America, lynx inhabit regions of Alaska and Canada.
animals such as vole grouse and birds
They eat mice, birds, snowshoe hare, squirrels, and remains of dead deer and moose.
Lynx mainly eat arctic hares and other small rodents.This is there common diet everyday.
meat
a lynx eats most stuff like for example a black bear can a tiger can
lynx are carnivorse so they only eat meat
includes red squirrles,snowshoe hares(favorite)and deer and all kinds of small mammles
Lynx mostly eat snowshoe hares (which are white rabbits) but they also eat different things as well.
In Africa
Other species of Hyenas also live in Asia, Middle East, India.
Can you show how a hyena looks like?
Look Hyena up in Google images. There are Spotted Hyenas and Striped Hyenas.
Is the hyena active duirng the day or at night?
Hyenas are most active at night, because it's easier for the to scavenge without being preyed on themselves
What do you when you cross a hyena with a parrot?
The species are incompatible and cannot interbreed.
