A Michael Broad Blog
This is the first time that I have seen a brown hyena and I think you will agree that the screenshot from the video makes the animal look very peculiar. It makes you want to find out more about the brown hyena. This group of lions, possibly a lion pride, were inquisitive about the …
The lion and the spotted hyena, two entirely separate species occupy the same or overlapping territory on the African continent. The scientific word for this is that these two species are sympatric. They are both large animals and are in competition with each other. This creates a certain amount of fascination as to how …
Italian archaeologists have unearthed the bones of nine Neanderthals from a hyena den about 100 km south-east of Rome. They think that the hyena den might have been the home of Neanderthals before it was taken over by hyenas. It got me thinking about other predators at that time who fed upon Neanderthals and …
Yes, lions steal from hyenas and vice versa sometimes depending on the numbers. For example H. Kruuk, in his work: The spotted hyena: A study of predation and social behavior – 1990 – University of Chicago Press, reported on two steals as follows: Two male lions stole a wildebeest from 25 hyenas; Three young …
By the time cheetahs are four-months-of-age they are able to outrun spotted hyenas and lions but until that age newly mobile cubs are very vulnerable to predators including spotted hyenas. And therefore the answer to the question in the title is, yes, with respect to young cheetahs. M.K. Laurenson in his study published in …
This picture of a spotted hyena’s tongue shows us that it has backward facing hard spines on it to help shred the flesh from prey. They are keratin spines very similar to those on all cats, domestic and wild. They are called filiform papillae. Domestic cats have them for grooming. Do the wild cats …
