Spotted hyenas evolved sharp carnassials behind their crushing premolars, therefore they did not need to wait for their prey to die, as is the case for brown and striped hyenas, and thus became pack hunters as well as scavengers.

* The largest species is the Great Spotted Kiwi or Roroa, Apteryx haastii, which stands about high and weighs about ( males about ).

* The very small Little Spotted Kiwi, Apteryx owenii is unable to withstand predation by introduced pigs, stoats and cats, which have led to its extinction on the mainland.

It is approximately the size of the Great Spotted Kiwi and is similar in appearance to the Brown Kiwi but its plumage is lighter in colour.

It is seen as a French answer to Born Free ( 1960 ), whose author, Joy Adamson, produced a cheetah biography of her own, The Spotted Sphinx ( 1969 ).

The Spotted Bass ( Micropterus punctulatus ), also called " Spotty ", " Leeman ", or " Spots " in various fishing communities, is a species of freshwater fish sunfish family ( Centrarchidae ) of order Perciformes.

The Spotted Quoll is mainland Australia's largest carnivorous marsupial and an endangered species.

Mature or " old-growth " Douglas-fir forest is the primary habitat of the Red Tree Vole ( Arborimus longicaudus ) and the Spotted Owl ( Strix occidentalis ).

The Australian Mist ( formerly known as the Spotted Mist ) is a breed of cat developed in Australia.

File: Crocuta_crocuta. jpg | The Spotted hyena is part of The Gambia's fauna.

Glendalough is a good place to look for some of Ireland's newest breeding species, such as the Goosander and Great Spotted Woodpecker, and some of the rarest, such as the Redstart and Wood Warbler ; Peregrine, Dipper, Cuckoo, Jay and Buzzard can also be seen.

The characteristic red, spotted ( petechial ) rash of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is usually not seen until the sixth day or later after onset of symptoms, but this type of rash occurs in only 35 to 60 percent of patients with Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Deficiency in this enzyme is associated with a high proportion of severe cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

Appropriate antibiotic treatment should be started immediately when there is a suspicion of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever on the basis of clinical and epidemiological findings.

Doxycycline ( tetracycline ) ( for adults at 100 milligrams every 12 hours, or for children under at 4 mg / kg of body weight per day in two divided doses ) is the drug of choice for patients with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

Doxycycline / tetracycline is also the preferred drug for patients with ehrlichiosis, another tick-transmitted infection with signs and symptoms that may resemble those of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

The smallest species of kiwi is the Little Spotted Kiwi, at and.

The Schorfheide is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and houses several rare animals like White-tailed Eagle, Greater Spotted Eagle, Osprey, Black Stork, European Beaver and otter.

Close to Nairobi National Park is also the Kitengela Game Conservation Area populated with buffalo, masai giraffe, black rhino, eland, impala, Grant's and Thomson's gazelle, common and Defassa waterbuck, hippopotamus, warthog, Olive Baboon, monkeys and the attendant carnivores-lion, Spotted Hyena, cheetah, jackals, Bat-eared Fox and smaller carnivores.

Native to coastal New South Wales and south-east Queensland but planted in many areas, the Spotted Gum is also valued for its tough, fine-grained timber, which is used for tool handles and other applications where hardness and resistance to warping is essential, e. g. axle blocks for wooden cart wheels.

* Spotted Dick is a steamed pudding ( cake ) containing fruit.

Spotted Eagle-owl displays red-eye effect only on the eye facing the camera's ring flash

The US Army attacked Spotted Elk ( aka Bigfoot ), Mnicoujou band of Lakota at the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890 at Pine Ridge.

With the significant reduction in timber harvesting on federal lands and the implementation of the Northwest Forest Plan to protect the endangered Northern Spotted Owl, the timber economy has been greatly eroded in recent years.

Prior to 1922, Doctors McCray and McClintic both died while doing research on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

After the Laramie Treaty of 1868 and the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation, many traditional Sioux warriors, such as Red Cloud of the Oglala and Spotted Tail of the Brulé, moved to reside permanently on the reservations.

Big Foot, also known as Spotted Elk, was a Miniconjou leader on the U. S. Army's list of " trouble-making " Indians.

The former differs in the less well-developed zigzag stripe on the neck, which neither reaches as far towards the center of the breast nor meets the black of the nape as it does in Great Spotted Woodpeckers.

The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker also has no red on the abdomen.

The winter temperatures may exhibit a direct effect on winter survival of Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers by heat loss, whereas weather conditions during spring have an indirect effect on breeding performance by affecting food production.

Impact of weather on annual fluctuations in breeding numbers of Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos minor in Norway.

Spotted Elk and his band, along with 38 Hunkpapa, left the Cheyenne River Reservation on December 23 to journey to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to seek shelter with Red Cloud.

The Spotted Creeper has a thin pointed down-curved bill, which it uses to extricate insects from bark, but it lacks the stiff tail feathers which the true treecreepers use to support themselves on vertical trees.

Hospital managers at Gloucestershire NHS Trust ( in 2001 ) and the catering staff at Flintshire County Council ( in 2009 ) renamed the pudding Spotted Richard on menus because of the use of the word dick in the original name, a common dysphemism for male genitalia in the English language.

Spotted by the British television director David Mallet, he invited Phillips to make Hot Gossip a regular feature of The Kenny Everett Show, which he directed for Thames Television on ITV.

The Satin and Spotted Bowerbirds are sometimes considered agricultural pests as they willingly feed on introduced fruit and vegetable crops and have occasionally been killed by affected orchardists.

The Spotted Redshank is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.

Spotted Sandpipers nest on the ground.

* Spotted Flycatcher videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection

That large bird will prey on potential predators of the Firecrest such as Eurasian Sparrowhawks, and nest robbers like Grey Squirrels, Eurasian Jays and Great Spotted Woodpeckers.

The western Spotted Towhee has white spots on its primary and secondary feathers.

Both Heath Spotted and Southern Marsh Orchids are frequent on Corfe Common that month, and Harebells and Betony ( purple ) flowers add colour to the Common in July.

The Spotted is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds ( AEWA ) applies.