The Somal declare the Waraba to be a hermaphrodite; so the ancients supposed the hyaena to be of both sexes, an error arising from the peculiar appearance of an orifice situated near two glands which secrete an unctuous fluid.
On the Jebel Bela mountain a soldier once shot at a hyaena and hit it, but it dragged itself off, bleeding, in the darkness and escaped.
Nothing of the hyaena was to be seen, but the man himself was laid up in the house with a fresh wound and died soon afterwards.
The negro stirs up the hyaena with a cut of his whip, and timorously the animal crouches in the farthermost corner of the cage, whilst the negro tells the spectators that the hyaena is known for its cowardice.
Not even the dead does the hyaena leave in peace, says the negro, and with disgust man turns away from the guilty animal.
None of the spectators have ever seen a hyaena before, but they have seen crouching backs and restless eyes.
The heaving of an arm here and there evinced that the spark of life still remained in some; but the chasm was impassable to the foot of man, and the wolf and hyaena lay undisturbed, gorged and glutted after their reeking festival.
The women of one kraal, for instance, may call a hyaena by its ordinary name; those of the next may use the common substitute; while in a third the substitute may also be unlawful and another term may have to be invented to supply its place.
The death of a hyaena is mourned by the whole people, and the greatest funeral ceremonies which they perform are performed for this brute.
The Wanika of East Africa look upon the hyaena as one of their ancestors or as associated in some way with their origin and destiny.
A thorn hedge, the native "boma," keeps out lions and the sneaking hyaena at night.
Elsewhere and by nature the hyaena is an arrant coward.
Vultures of many kinds dispute with lion and hyaena for the carrion of dead ox or mule beside the road of our advance.
All that have stayed are the larger carnivora, like the hyaena or the lion.
But, strange as it may seem, the hyaena is worshipped by one very large tribe in East Africa, the Kikuyu.
Of these bones, the great majority are those of the hyaena; hence these dens, specially in England, are called hyaena dens.
From these facts there can be no doubt but the hyaena inhabited England, France, and Germany, and dwelt in these caves, and here perished when the sudden catastrophe of the flood overtook him.
The fore-louper boy came up, and seeing a mangyhyaena said, 'Here's an ugly brute!
As he said this, he dealt the hyaena a heavy kick.
The two returned with sticks, and belaboured the hyaena within an inch of his life.
But he found, to his great annoyance, that a great spotted hyaena and his wife had already found and eaten up most of the fish.
Master Jackal thought a little, and decided to hide his vexation, and then explained to the hyaena his plan; and the hyaena said it was good, and he would try it one of these days.
The hyaena flinched, and the boy, smelling a rat, as you English say, ran back to the wagon-driver and told him.
So a little while after the hyaena saw the wagon coming from the sea again, laden with fish, and, just as the jackal had done, stretched himself out for dead on the road in front.
Illustration: The lion, the hyaena and the hare] So they all agreed that this must be done, but they could not agree as to who should be eaten and who should be saved.
So the lion turned to the hyaenaand said, "You must then speak first.
The hyaena is harmless, and so only a subject for derision.
So the hyaena put his nose in the water to smell if the rhino was there, and he was seized by the crocodiles and dragged into the river and eaten.
Then was the hyaena very angry, and rushed after the hare and caught him.
So thehyaena let go and said to him, "I will follow you and see; but if you have deceived me I will kill you.
This species was contemporary with, and later replaced by, the spotted hyaena (H.
Thus the cave-lion (Felis leo spelaea) and the cave-hyaena (H.
Among the large carnivora, the lion (Felis leo antiqua) and the spotted hyaena (H.
The sabre-tooth tiger of this time is preserved in the caverns of the Pyrenees near Montmaurin, associated with the remains of the striped hyaena (H.
I, and taking the note I read: `Dearest parents and Ernest, `A brute of a hyaena has killed a ram and two lambs.
The dogs and the dying hyaena were by this time engaged in mortal strife; but the latter, although it severely wounded both Floss and Bruno, speedily succumbed, and was dead when the boys reached the spot.
Better than this masquerade of culture Hiding strange hyaena appetites, The frank ravening of the raw-necked vulture As its beak the senseless carrion smites.
The shot had been a very lucky one, for, aiming well forward at the moving grass, I had struck the hyaena with the bullet under the ear, and it had passed through the skull, dropping him dead in his track.
We were most particular in our approach to the spot, and threw several stones in advance, but saw nothing until we came right on the body of a hyaena lying dead.
I saw that it had been seized by the neck, and therefore knew that a leopard had killed it, a hyaena or wolf generally seizing by the flank.
Hyaena spelaea of Goldfuss--is, like the cave-bear, characteristic of Europe during the Palaeolithic age.
The Net Hyaena throws is so fine, that you are taken in it before you can observe any Part of her Work.
Hyaena can loll in her Coach, with something so fixed in her Countenance, that it is impossible to conceive her Meditation is employed only on her Dress and her Charms in that Posture.
The natives all maintained still that their cow had been killed by a panther, saying that the hyaena had come on the second night, after their manner, to fill its base belly with the leavings.
In the middle of the night a hyaena nosed it from afar, and came sneaking up in the rear, for hyaenas love the flesh of goats next to that of dogs.
Aristotle has left us two accounts by which alone the hyaena (fig.
As it is furnished with a mane, has a difficulty in turning the head, and scrapes up dead bodies from their graves, it has every appearance of being the hyaena of the ancients.
In Barbary the hyaena bears the name of dubbah, as appears from the description given of this animal by Dr.
Bellon, who has given a figure and description of the civet, insists that it was the hyaena of the ancients, and his mistake is the more excusable not being destitute of some foundation.
As to the baboon, which has hands and feet like those of a man or a monkey, he resembles the hyaena still less than the other three, and it must be solely from their name that they have been confounded together.
The jackall inhabits the same countries, and like the hyaena resembles the wolf in form; like him also he feeds upon dead carcasses, and digs up graves to devour their contents.
It appears, then, that the hyaena is neither the dabuh of the Arabians, the jesef or sesef of the Africans, nor the deeb of Barbary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hyaena" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
