. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE HYsENA FAMILY—HYsENA. 185 feet are whitish. These colors are liable to show considerable variations, as they may be much darker or lighter. The length of the body is about fifty- two inches ; the height of the shoulder is nearly thirty-two inches, but much larger specimens are reported to have been killed. Spotted Hyamas The Spotted Hyaena inhabits Haunts and southern and eastern Africa, ex- Mode of Life. tending from the Cape of Good Hope to about the s
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE HYsENA FAMILY—HYsENA. 185 feet are whitish. These colors are liable to show considerable variations, as they may be much darker or lighter. The length of the body is about fifty- two inches ; the height of the shoulder is nearly thirty-two inches, but much larger specimens are reported to have been killed. Spotted Hyamas The Spotted Hyaena inhabits Haunts and southern and eastern Africa, ex- Mode of Life. tending from the Cape of Good Hope to about the seventeenth degree of north latitude, and wherever it is plentiful it almost com- pletely crowds out the Striped Hyaena. The two species live together in Abyssinia and East Soudan, but farther south the Spotted Hyaena gradually becomes sole possessor of the field. It is very corn- more stupid, and of a more wicked and brutal dispo- sition than its striped relative, though it may be tamed to a certain extent in a short time, with the aid of the whip. Still it seems that it never attains the degree of docility that is reached by the Striped Hyaena. The tricks performed in wandering circuses by the Hyaena do not furnish us with a standard, and it is only such peripatetic zoologists as these that find pleasure or profit in bestowing much attention upon these animals, which are so ugly, clumsy and unprepossessing in their cage. For hours they lie like a log; then they jump up, look at people with a remarkably dull-witted expression, rub themselves against the bars from time to time and then break out with their abominable STRIPED HYJENAS. This species of the Hyiena family is the best known, and derives its name from the markings of its fur as shown in the picture. This is, like the other species, a carrion eating animal, and the dispute over the possession of a bone, as here depicted, is a very common occur- rence on the African and Asiatic plains which form its habitat.
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