The hungry hyena tears off the zebra's leg, and spends the next several days eating the zebra bit by bit.

Striped hyena pugmark / track in wet clay.

These migrants are followed along their annual, circular route by hungry predators, most notably lions and hyena.

The spotted hyena is renowned for its strong bite proportional to its size, but a number of other animals ( including the Tasmanian devil ) are proportionately stronger .< ref >

Leopards must compete for food and shelter with other large predators such as lions, tigers, spotted hyenas, striped hyena, up to 5 species of bear and both African and Asiatic wild dogs.

Cheetah cubs have a high mortality rate due to predation by other carnivores, such as the lion and hyena, and perhaps genetic factors.

All hyena species engage in this behavior when they can, and jackals also steal from other carnivores ' kills.

When marking their territory, striped hyenas use the paste of their anal pouch ( hyena butter ) to scent mark grass, stalks, stones, tree trunks and other objects.

Because of its scavenging diet, the striped hyena requires more water to survive than most other carnivores.

Emigration is common in brown hyena clans, particularly among young males, which will join other groups upon reaching adulthood.

The spotted hyena is the largest member of the Hyaenidae, and is further physically distinguished from other species by its vaguely bear-like build, its rounded ears, its less prominent mane, its spotted pelt, its more dual purposed dentition, its fewer nipples and the presence of a pseudo-penis in the female.

However, the social system of the spotted hyena is openly competitive rather than cooperative, with access to kills, mating opportunities and the time of dispersal for males depending on the ability to dominate other clan-members.

The spotted hyena displays greater plasticity in its hunting and foraging behaviour than other African carnivores ; it hunts alone, in small parties of 2-5 individuals or in large groups.

In other languages, other species may simply be termed " small spotted hyena ", such as in Swahili, where the spotted hyena is termed fisi and the aardwolf fisi ndogo.

* Kishi ( demon ), a type of demon of Angola, which has two faces-one human, the other hyena

Amboseli National Park is home to wild animals, which include the African elephant, cape buffalo, impala, lion, cheetah, hyena, giraffe, zebra, and wildebeest among other African animals.

The protected areas of this dry region are home to 80 species of mammal of which predators include the endemic Asiatic Lion ( Panthera leo persica ) along with Leopard ( Panthera pardus ), and Indian Wolf ( canis lupus pallipes ) and Hyena ( Hyena hyena ) while the plentiful prey that sustains all these carnivores includes Chousingha ( Tetracerus quadricornis ), Blackbuck, ( Antilope cervicapra ), and Chinkara ( Gazella bennettii ), all of which are globally threatened species, and other grazing animals.

* When Jonathan says that Sunnydale High is different from other schools and that students have already noticed that a lot of weird things happen there two people in the crowd scream " zombies " and " hyena people ", referencing to the episodes " Dead Man's Party " and " The Pack " respectively.

Animals in the Children ’ s Park include black buck, sambar, spotted deer, porcupine, hyena, jackal, python, grey pelican, night heron, cormorant, cockatiel, parrot, mongoose, common peafowl, crocodile, common otter, rhesus monkey, bonnet monkey and common langur.

A line of jack-in-the-box toys are heard emitting a " hyena laugh " sound effect that first appeared in Lady And The Tramp.

Pi ends up in a small lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, a spotted hyena, an injured zebra, and an orangutan.

Of the hyena, Pliny writes that it " is popularly believed to be bisexual and to become male and female in alternate years, the female bearing offspring without any male ," and that " among the shepherds ’ s homesteads it simulates human speech, and picks up the name of one of them so as to call him to come out of doors and tear him to pieces, and also that it imitates a person being sick, to attract the dogs so that it may attack them ; that this animal alone digs up corpses ; that a female is seldom caught ; that its eyes have a thousand variations of color ; moreover that when its shadow falls on dogs they are struck dumb ; and that it has certain magic arts by which it causes every animal at which it gazes three times to stand rooted to the spot.

The spotted hyena, which has a particularly well-developed clitoris, is the only species in which the female urinates, mates and gives birth via the clitoris.

Males in most hyena species are larger than females, though the spotted hyena is exceptional, as it is the female of the species that outweighs and dominates the male.

The male brown hyena is slightly larger than the female, while the sexes of the striped hyena are both the same size.

In some species such as insects, spiders, many fish, reptiles, birds of prey and certain mammals such as the spotted hyena, and blue whale, the female is larger than the male.

Study of this unique genitalia and aggressive behavior in the female hyena has led to the understanding that more aggressive females are better able to compete for resources, including food and mating partners.

Unlike the genitalia of the spotted hyena, the female reproductive organs of the striped hyena are normal.

The striped hyena is monogamous, with the male helping the female to establish a den, raise young and feed her when cubs are born.

Unlike most modern hyena species, which are specialised bone-crushers, these dog-like hyenas were nimble-bodied, wolfish animals ; one species among them was Ictitherium viverrinum, which was similar to a jackal.

Further spells have the effect of changing the revivified body into the form of some animal, hyena, owl or wild cat, the latter being most in favour.

In India and the Asian islands the tiger is the most common form ; in North Europe, the bear ( see berserker ); in Japan, the fox, tanuki ( raccoon dog ), and sometimes a wolf ; in Africa, the leopard, hyena, or lion ; and in South America, the jaguar.

The spotted hyena is the most social of the Carnivora in that it has the largest group sizes and most complex social behaviours.

The spotted hyena is a highly successful animal, being the most common large carnivore in Africa.

In functional terms, the spotted hyena makes the most efficient use of animal matter of all African carnivores.

Vanstone proved to be a blunt-talking, robust defender of government policies, and the then Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services, Wayne Swan, described her as " a political hyena who takes delight in attacking society's most vulnerable ".

Among the most recognizable Eurasian species are the woolly mammoth, straight-tusked elephant, aurochs, cave lion, cave bear, Cave hyena, Irish elk, giant polar bears, woolly rhinoceros, Merck ´ s rhinoceros, narrow-nosed rhinoceros, and Elasmotherium.

It was most likely the most common large predator ( after the cave hyena ) in plains ecosystems.

Chong was originally going to voice the character of Shenzi, the hyena in the Disney film The Lion King, which would have had him performing once more with Cheech Marin, who voiced Banzai.

Thereafter Holstein returned to Berlin, where he assumed office as legation secretary in the Auswärtiges Amt in 1876, both an essential and a suspiciously eyed associate of Bismarck, who behind his back called him a " hyena ".

In a dream he sees a plane coming to get him and take him to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro as a hyena is heard from the distance.

Simba fights the hyenas then a hyena from the top bites him only to get hit in the head hard by Rafiki.