For the anatomy of Hyaenas see Morrison Watson in Proc.
It will be remembered that the striping and spotting of the Hyaenas is very Genet- and Suricate-like.
Other extinct genera of Hyaenas are Lycyaena and Hyaenictis.
But I am afraid that it will attract the hyaenas and jackals in no small numbers, so that we shall be annoyed by their howls and screechings.
All night long we were surrounded by the abominable cries of hyaenas and jackals which were collected round the carcases of the slain animals.
Covering up the body of Hans with some thick bushes, we left it where it lay, in order to prevent the hyaenas and jackals from getting at it, and returned to our fire.
I could hear every now and then the mutterings and occasional roars of lions, with the cries of hyaenas and jackals, and the calls of various night-birds.
He knew too that the hyaenas had been there long after man had ceased to use the caves, because no flint tools were found among the bones.
The Hyaenas are now coming up to play their part as scavengers, and have already begun to break up the bones in their crushing-mills of jaws.
The quarries in which were lying the half-hewn blocks, scored with the marks of wedges, had evidently formed the resort of Hyaenas for a long series of years.
The illustration shows a group of Hyaenas coming to feed on the relics of a dead animal.
The skin being removed, the carcase is burnt, because the hunters think that by this process the other Hyaenas are prevented from finding the body of their comrade, and either avenging its death or taking warning by its fate.
Paaker's brow clouded, and while he paused in front of his mother he said with all the peculiar harshness of his voice: "He shall pine away in the desert, and the hyaenas of the North shall tear his unburied corpse.
Nile to the Red Sea, three were killed by the Ethiopians, and the last, the star of my hopes, by this time is eaten by the hyaenas of the north.
The hyaenas also inhabiting the 'Dukeries,' dragged back to their dens fragments of lion.
I'd bet a pipe of tobacco that a pack of those laughing beauties the hyaenas are following the crows and will be hard at work as soon as we are on the trek.
The cries were those of a drove of some animals, but I don't think they were either hyaenas or jackals.
Yes, father; but I think the hyaenasare worse," said Mark eagerly.
M277) In Sennar, a province of the Egyptian Sudan, the Hammeg and Fungi enjoy the reputation of being powerful magicians who can turn themselves into hyaenas and in that guise scour the country at night, howling and gorging themselves.
It is very dangerous to shoot at such human hyaenas by night.
And there can be no doubt that the physical geography of Europe has changed wonderfully, since the bones of Men and Mammoths, Hyaenas and Rhinoceroses were washed pell-mell into the cave of Engis.
Let us suppose Hyaenas to have preceded Dogs, and to have produced the latter in this way.
A steep hill with a preposterous surface leads down to Hodge Beck; to the wooden footbridge among the trees, and the quarry where the hyaenas used to live, and the splash that we must cross.
It was all but deserted, so that jackals and hyaenas prowled even over the mountain of the Lord's House.
The only survivors of the great African-Asiatic fauna in Fourth Glacial and Postglacial times were the hyaenas (H.
It is possible that the bodies of the dead and of the aged were thrown out to the hyaenas which surrounded the stations, as among some of the tribes of Africa to-day, but it is equally possible that they were interred in some manner.
The lions and hyaenas which abounded in Chellean and early Acheulean times are in part ancestors of the cave types which appear in the succeeding Reindeer or Cavern Period.
The hare then skinned the lion, and taking the skin he went his way till he came to a cave where thirty hyaenas were holding a dance.
When the hyaenas smelt the smell of a lion they looked round and saw a lion crouching at the entrance.
The Dogs of Palestine are, indeed, much like hyaenas of certain African towns, and act as scavengers, devouring any animal substance that may fall in their way.
I could see indistinctly dark forms moving about on the opposite hills, an occasional shriek from which indicated some prowling jackals or hyaenas on the look-out for prey.
One day all the hyaenas that remained alive went out very early into the fields, leaving only one little daughter at home.
That night the two hyaenas told all the rest, saying, 'Do you know that we have allowed ourselves to be trampled on by a wretched creature with nothing of the lion about him but his skin?
When the hyaenas returned to their homes the little hyaena said to her father: 'Father, our tribe has very nearly been swept away, and all this has been the work of a tiny creature dressed in the lion's skin.
Meanwhile the little hare did not trouble himself about them, but just asked where the king of the hyaenas lived, and made himself quite at home there.
The hyaenas soon came up to him and said, 'Tell me, friend, have you seen the little hare go by?
The little hare jumped out through the mouth with a single spring, and fled away like lightning, all the hyaenasin full pursuit uttering great cries.
After an eventful night, during which leopards coughed, lions roared, hyaenas dashed into camp and bolted with my best waterbuck head, we all turned out early.
The nocturnal attentions of the hyaenas were most annoying, diabolical peals of laughter in rapid succession making sleep almost impossible.
At the next camping-place hyaenas came close to their tents and killed a camel, on the carcase of which a lion, when he had driven them away, banqueted, when they returned and devoured what he had left.
The men feasted on their half of the carcass, and for two nights an immense number of hyaenas collected round, uttering their loud laughter.
In traversing the rocky eminences of this hill, which are almost destitute of vegetation, I observed a number of large holes in the crevices and fissures of the rocks, where the wolves and hyaenas take refuge during the day.
To-night the lions and hyaenasthat this war has provided with such sumptuous repasts will ring down the curtain.
It is hardly to be wondered at that the hyaenas in the "Kikuyu" country are far bolder than in other parts.
So much so, that when their own relatives seem about to die they put them out in the bush with a small fire and a gourd of water, protected by a small erection of bush against the mid-day sun, and leave the hyaenas to do the rest.
At night, attracted by to-morrow's meat that hangs inside a strong and well-guarded hut, the hyaenas come to prowl and voice their hunger and disappointment on the evening air.
Lions and hyaenas have been our camp followers, and not a little are we grateful to these wonderful scavengers, the best of all possible allies in settling the great question of sanitation in camps.
So bad did the hyaenas become, that the first moonlight night it was resolved to lie in wait and try and shoot two or three.
Here were lions in scores, hyaenas and jungle-cats.
How de lion roah in de jungle, and how de tiger [the leopard is frequently so called in Africa] jump about, and de wild hyaenas come out in de moonlight and laugh at poor Raggy.
At night, too, when the vultures have gone to roost on the scorched and blackened branches of the burned forest, wild dogs and hyaenas will come in crowds to the awful feast.
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