(n.) Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pasting, a stereotypic form of anal gland scent marking, was studied in 2 cohorts (N = 20) of captive spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).
(2) Hyena disease was first reported in France in 1975 and since then has been recognized in many countries.
(3) They've grown used to holding their bladders and bowels, being stalked by wild boars and hyenas and, during the rainy season, watching out for snakes.
(4) This morphology is considered as an adaptation to stabilizing the body while the hyena carries large and heavy load.
(5) Three of the 4 dominant hyenas ate substantial quantities of the food during this group feeding, and all 4 hyenas ate the following day when offered the food alone.
(6) Mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), hyena (Hyaena hyaena), cats and dogs were susceptible.
(7) Known as the “hyena”, this man travels between villages, paid by the community to have sex with girls as young as nine, often exposing them to unwanted pregnancy and HIV infection.
(8) He grumbled last week : "The worst of these hyenas would assemble outside press conference rooms in packs and discuss ways to unsettle the panel after organising committee board meetings."
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The camera traps also revealed an extraordinary range of other forest dwellers, including forest elephants , olive baboons , spotted hyena as well as red river and giant forest hogs , crested guinea fowl and aardvark .
(10) Among them were primitive versions of hippopotamuses, rhinos, horses, antelopes, and dangerous predators such as big cats and hyenas.
(11) Recently, deer, antelope, hyena, skunk, gerbil, monkey, and human scents have been investigated.
(12) Surely the nightly calls from the hyenas or the diet of raw kidneys and goat brain soup would make us bolt back to a five-star hotel.
(13) Lions and hyenas persisted: lions hunted reindeer across the frozen wastes of Britain until 11,000 years ago .
(14) Within some 10 or 15,000 years, the continent had lost its straight-tusked elephants, forest rhinos, hippos, hyenas and monstrous scimitar cats.
(15) Even during hte one-month peak, the major predator on calves, the spotted hyena, is unable to feed to satiation.
(16) The hemoglobin from spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) exhibits in its alpha- and beta-chains 22 and 20 exchanges, respectively, compared to human hemoglobin.
(17) Frankly, some of the personalised attacks on him and his father have been deeply unsavoury,” he added, saying some Labour MPs were “behaving like hyenas”.
(18) On Day 3, the dominant hyena and 3 or 4 members of her group were offered the food simultaneously.
(19) In 2015, startup CEO Greg Gopman attempted to make amends for his own anti-homeless screed (he described the homeless as “the lower part of society” and “degenerates [who] gather like hyenas” and bemoaned the “burden and liability [of] having them so close to us) by launching a program of his own to “solve” homelessness.
(20) The primary structure of the alpha- and beta-chains of hemoglobin from spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta, Hyenidae) is presented.