Appearance
-Its fur is usally grayish but sometimes can be pale tan
-Has thick black stripes, vertical pattern
-Has a black patch in the bottom of the neck
-Has a mane from head to tip of the tail
-Muzzle/face darker than its actual fur
-Weighs 57-70 pounds
-About 2.2-2.5 feet tall
-Muzzle to tip of the tail, 5 feet long
Habitat
-Northeast Africa, Middle East, and Asia
-Hunts on the Indian forest and seashores for washed up animals
-Nocturnal and usally rest under protruding rocks during the day
-Often raids farms and melon patches in Israel, which bring there conflict with humans
Reproduction
-Females usally tend to come to sexual maturity around 2-3 years old
-The females are pregnant for about 88-92 days
-The females can get pregnant at 15 months
-Usually there are 2 cubs in the litter but the range can be anywhere between 1-5 cubs
-Cubs open their eyes after 5 days since there birth
-Females can come to heat at anytime of the year.
-When the female has mated the gestation period is 88-92 days
-Cubs start to eat meat at 30 days and will continue to recieve meat by their parents for about 4-5 months
-The den is a hole or a space between rocks where the family stays and lives.
Behaviors
-The animal is not a territorial animal, hence having multiple packs in the same field or area
-Most live in packs of 1-2 but some have been reported to have 7 hyenas
-When fighting the bite and the throat and legs
-Licking and pawing eachother’s throats are ways to greet each other
-When threatened their manes spike up making them look bigger
Skills
-The color of their fur helps them hunt beacsue they can camofouge in tall grass
-Unlike most animals the females are the head of the ppack and mostly dominate the males
-Use a cackling howl to communicate
-Striped hyenas have large ears so tehy can hear things from miles away
-The front legs are longer than the front so they look simlar to a limping walk
-They are agile with running and trotting, but also can walk with ease
-These hyenas can’t climb trees.
-The reason why is beacuse there bodies are made for bone crushing and very fast running
-There taller front legs makes them unable to climb the tree, beacsue of thier balence
Meals
-Moslty feed on already eaten carcasses
-Feeds on fresh bones, cartiliage, ligaments, and bone narrow
-Moslty carnivores but feed on melons, garbage and fruits
Hunting skills
-They mostly feed on dead animals but they hunt if they need food for there cubs
-They hide in tall grass and stock there prey
-They chase after their prey and grab it by the groin and pull it out, inflicting excrucitating pain
-Because its a scavenger, striped hyenas need more water than any other animal in the savannah
-Because of the high amount of calcium they aer eating, there faces get very white, very quick
-Hyenas are scavngers, meaning they eat other animals kill, it rarely hunts for itself
-When it’s eating, a striped hyena eats until its complety full, unless the female has cubs to feed
Hunted not hunters
-Hunters would say kind things to the animal like, “you are very beautiful, you could be a lion, oh wait you are one” and would be able to get the noose around the hyenas neck
-There fur is sold for the same prices as wolf and dog fur
-Some hyenas are speared down from men on horses
-Hunters is Kandahar use hypnosis to put the hyena in a trance “turn into dust, turn into stone”
-They flatter the hyena by giving nice comments, believing they can understand Arabic language
-Hyenas are eaten by egyptians, arabians, pakistanians, and sinais
-Some parts of the hyena were believed to help the sick and magic
-The hair of it’s mane is used as a love potion or a sickness charm
-Indians believe if you eat the tounge, it could kill/stop tumors
Conservation
-The hyenas are near thretened
-One reason they are hunted is beause they can carry dieseases that they can spread to other animals, for example rabies, canine distemper, and anthrax
-They should be conserved beacuse they have very stron immune systems and they are able to be cured from a very bad diesease very shortly, so they should be conserved so we can learn more about them
-Hyenas all facilitate energy transfer and cycling of nutrients between biotic and abiotic portions of the ecosystems in which they live
- They can survive under conditions no other large carnivore can tolerate
-They are very intelligent and smart creatures
-Its fur is usally grayish but sometimes can be pale tan
-Has thick black stripes, vertical pattern
-Has a black patch in the bottom of the neck
-Has a mane from head to tip of the tail
-Muzzle/face darker than its actual fur
-Weighs 57-70 pounds
-About 2.2-2.5 feet tall
-Muzzle to tip of the tail, 5 feet long
Habitat
-Northeast Africa, Middle East, and Asia
-Hunts on the Indian forest and seashores for washed up animals
-Nocturnal and usally rest under protruding rocks during the day
-Often raids farms and melon patches in Israel, which bring there conflict with humans
Reproduction
-Females usally tend to come to sexual maturity around 2-3 years old
-The females are pregnant for about 88-92 days
-The females can get pregnant at 15 months
-Usually there are 2 cubs in the litter but the range can be anywhere between 1-5 cubs
-Cubs open their eyes after 5 days since there birth
-Females can come to heat at anytime of the year.
-When the female has mated the gestation period is 88-92 days
-Cubs start to eat meat at 30 days and will continue to recieve meat by their parents for about 4-5 months
-The den is a hole or a space between rocks where the family stays and lives.
Behaviors
-The animal is not a territorial animal, hence having multiple packs in the same field or area
-Most live in packs of 1-2 but some have been reported to have 7 hyenas
-When fighting the bite and the throat and legs
-Licking and pawing eachother’s throats are ways to greet each other
-When threatened their manes spike up making them look bigger
Skills
-The color of their fur helps them hunt beacsue they can camofouge in tall grass
-Unlike most animals the females are the head of the ppack and mostly dominate the males
-Use a cackling howl to communicate
-Striped hyenas have large ears so tehy can hear things from miles away
-The front legs are longer than the front so they look simlar to a limping walk
-They are agile with running and trotting, but also can walk with ease
-These hyenas can’t climb trees.
-The reason why is beacuse there bodies are made for bone crushing and very fast running
-There taller front legs makes them unable to climb the tree, beacsue of thier balence
Meals
-Moslty feed on already eaten carcasses
-Feeds on fresh bones, cartiliage, ligaments, and bone narrow
-Moslty carnivores but feed on melons, garbage and fruits
Hunting skills
-They mostly feed on dead animals but they hunt if they need food for there cubs
-They hide in tall grass and stock there prey
-They chase after their prey and grab it by the groin and pull it out, inflicting excrucitating pain
-Because its a scavenger, striped hyenas need more water than any other animal in the savannah
-Because of the high amount of calcium they aer eating, there faces get very white, very quick
-Hyenas are scavngers, meaning they eat other animals kill, it rarely hunts for itself
-When it’s eating, a striped hyena eats until its complety full, unless the female has cubs to feed
Hunted not hunters
-Hunters would say kind things to the animal like, “you are very beautiful, you could be a lion, oh wait you are one” and would be able to get the noose around the hyenas neck
-There fur is sold for the same prices as wolf and dog fur
-Some hyenas are speared down from men on horses
-Hunters is Kandahar use hypnosis to put the hyena in a trance “turn into dust, turn into stone”
-They flatter the hyena by giving nice comments, believing they can understand Arabic language
-Hyenas are eaten by egyptians, arabians, pakistanians, and sinais
-Some parts of the hyena were believed to help the sick and magic
-The hair of it’s mane is used as a love potion or a sickness charm
-Indians believe if you eat the tounge, it could kill/stop tumors
Conservation
-The hyenas are near thretened
-One reason they are hunted is beause they can carry dieseases that they can spread to other animals, for example rabies, canine distemper, and anthrax
-They should be conserved beacuse they have very stron immune systems and they are able to be cured from a very bad diesease very shortly, so they should be conserved so we can learn more about them
-Hyenas all facilitate energy transfer and cycling of nutrients between biotic and abiotic portions of the ecosystems in which they live
- They can survive under conditions no other large carnivore can tolerate
-They are very intelligent and smart creatures
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