Both a sense of repulsion and also a sense of awe is what a mixed feeling that comes with the sighting of a hyena, rightly so. Hyenas feature prominently in the folklore and mythology of human cultures with which they are contiguous in a cultural sense. Hyenas are commonly viewed as frightening and worthy of contempt, and are associated with witchcraft, because their body parts are used as ingredients in traditional medicine. Hyenas are believed to rob graves, steal livestock and children. They have a mixed evolution of two distinct classes of animals the CANINE and the FELINE, if one studies their behavior closely. Both hyenas and canines are nonarboreal (inability to scale trees), cursorial (Ability to catch prey using their teeth and not their claws. Having calloused feet with large, blunt, non- retractable nails they are able to run fast and also make sudden sharp turns. However, the hyenas grooming, scent marking, defecating habits, mating, and parental behavior are consistent with the behavior of other feline forms. It’s their Parental behavior that stands apart from other animals including humans- Believe it or not ---- a Hyena makes the best Mother – (Please don’t go around calling good mothers as hyenas!!!) Hyenas are a very vital element of African ecosystems, especially because they consume a huge amount of meat, not only as scavenging, but also as primary consumers. They are essentially Omnivorous, and because of this some Islamic tribes consider the Hyena meat as HALAL There are two types of hyenas the striped hyena (Hyaena Hyaena) and the spotted hyena (Crocuta Crocuta) The African Masai Mara reserve has a prominent distribution of the spotted hyena
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