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How to use hyena in a sentence

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The rolling hills and forests are a haven for desert wolves, leopards, striped hyena, wild sheep, the rare Sindh ibex and the imperial eagle.
Conception dates of hyena litters were calculated by subtracting the gestation period of 110 days from birthdates.
The hyena exploits carcasses more fully than either cat because of its bone-cracking abilities.
One minute you're sobbing enough to fill your sister's kiddie pool and laughing like a hyena the next.
Springbok shelter beneath trees and a lone hyena scurries across the open plain.
Over the years, some 400 pets have called the White House home, ranging from bear cubs, snakes, and a hyena, to cats and cows.
The woman in the stall next to mine was belly laughing, cackling like a crazed hyena, heehawing at the other woman's fart.
No animal is so fleet of foot or so powerful that it will not one day succumb to the jaws of the hyena.
Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena.
There was no sound except the crackle of the fire, a hyena cry and the occasional trumpet of an elephant.
When he thought something ironic, he would let out a high-pitched shrill laugh that sounded like a hyena.
It has now become a major attraction for wild elephants, bison, hyena and boars.
There are three types of African Sachal, spotted hyena and a myriad of small predators such as the aard-wolf and the beautiful serval cat.
The farce is in the hysterical-absurdist mode, leaping from excess to excess, part souped-up gazelle, part nastily laughing hyena.
We've got spotted hyena, cheetah, some of the smaller carnivores, jennets and things like that.
Their enemies are lion, leopard, spotted hyena, wild dog and crocodile.
Other animal species to look out for include impala, blue wildebeest, waterbuck, zebra, nyala, kudu, bushbuck, warthog, cheetah, hyena, jackal and giraffe.
He has learned that a tiger is unafraid of the hyena because he is aware of his own strength.
Souroukou, the hyena, listen to their conversation and brings them to the village chief to ask for his advice.
Tony Zino, a New York Rotarian, read of a child badly mauled by a hyena in Uganda.
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Still to be introduced are the hippo, cheetah, lion and brown hyena.
The hyena character could for example not be used in Togo, where the hyena is considered a dirty animal.
The lifeboat is also occupied by a zebra, an orangutan, and a hyena.
They showed that she had in fact managed to feed on the hyena.
The spotted hyena spends its day in holes in the ground, or in rocky dens.
Sourougou, the hyena, sees the disaster coming and run to the Malick and Séni's compound.
It has been known for decades that these animals communicate using a pungent material called hyena butter.
As well as the 'Big Five' you will find the nocturnal brown hyena, cheetah, hippo, crocodile and sable.
Makosseh, the hyena, succeeds in convincing the villagers of the importance of play to children.
Chief Kasagha and Makosseh, the hyena, explain the importance of education to Jeneba, Fanta and Mariama.
The calving lures many animals of prey, including lions and spotted hyena.
Home to numerous crocodiles and hippo, the Great Ruaha draws many thirsty waterbuck, leopard, buffalo, reedbuck, wild dogs, lion and hyena to its banks.
The four extant hyena species are the remnants of a large radiation.
But today, as I set to the grass and weeds there was a mighty judder, and instead of purring like a tiger as it should it began growling like a wounded hyena.
Proposals also were approved to remove controls of trade in the brown hyena, and Darwin's rhea.
For example, the Arabian wolves and striped hyena are not native to Oman but we also have a few of those animals.
However, there was a case of a female striped hyena dominating 12 Arabian wolves.
Indigenous mammals include the leopard, hyena, fox, wolf, hare, oryx, and ibex.
Permanent is an optimistic term, and many an elderly lion, hyena or zebra can be seen skulking across the savanna with broken, missing and abscessed teeth.
Dana Nature Reserve hosts a wide variety of fauna, including ibex, mountain gazelle, fox, badger, porcupine, wolf, hyrax, striped hyena, jackal and many others.
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Children who learned at grandpa's knee that the hyena is an evil, snarling beast that haunts the night are sometimes perplexed to see real hyenas placidly sunbathing.
Herds of up to 30 elephants are encountered with increasing frequency, and several lion prides are resident, together with leopard, spotted hyena and black-backed jackal.
Dr Theis compared one of the solitary species, the striped hyena, with the gregarious one, the spotted hyena, which lives in clans that have as many as 90 animals in them.
They are less obscure now, though, thanks to the work of Kevin Theis of Michigan State University, who has spent much of his career analysing the contents of hyena pouches.
Souroukou, the hyena, finds a remedy: a wonderful red ball.
We could perhaps call it the hyena rule of politics, where they would lie in the long grass waiting for government to stumble and then come in and pick up the spoils.
Sourougou, the hyena, sees the catastrophe coming and runs to the court of Malick and Séni, two young children, to open their eyes to the problems that threaten their environment.
As all good French schoolchildren know, La bête du Gévaudan, a beast half hyena, half lion terrorized the region in the 18th century and was responsible for the disappearances and deaths of numerous individuals.
However, Sylvain Macchi prefers the theory of Gérard Ménatory, who proposed that the beast was actually a hyena raised by people. The wolf is not in the habit of attacking humans.
But yesterday it emerged that at least one more tiger, a bear and a striped hyena are still feared to be on the loose.
The brown hyena has evolved to live in desert systems throughout southern Africa, where it occurs at low densities.
The striped hyena is common in Jordan's wildlife, spotting it in urban areas is a rare occurrence.
The site is open to the public and has a visitor centre with a small museum of objects associated with the caves, including a stuffed cave hyena.
There are predators such as spotted hyena, striped hyena and African leopard.
The striped hyena is the second largest hyena species after the spotted hyena and is smaller in stature than the brown hyena.
The spotted hyena, woolly mammoth, wolf, reindeer, white-tailed eagle and wild boar are some of the animals that once roamed our countryside.
One of the great successes of Samson Agonistes is its political symbolics of the hyena.
The story follows a boy who survives a shipwreck and gets stranded on a lifeboat for 227 days with a spotted hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger.
The researchers were able to show that the diversity of odor-producing bacteria in spotted hyena scent glands is much greater than historical studies of mammals had suggested.
The Kirthar is home to threatened species such as the Sindh ibex, the Urial sheep, desert wolf, striped hyena, golden jackal, the Chinkara and eight species of eagle.
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On the banned list are outfits with patterns resembling zebra, giraffe, leopard, cheetah, tiger, spotted hyena, striped hyena and African wild dog.
He certainly had to have his wits about him on Wild At Heart while working with dangerous and unpredictable animals including a white lion, a hyena and an aardwolf.
In Eurasia and Africa, predators include the wolf, leopard, tiger, lion, dhole, Asiatic black bear, crocodile, spotted hyena, and other carnivores.
Species in the study area and scat samples could belong to the Arabian leopard, caracal, grey wolf, striped hyena, Arabian tahr and Arabian gazelle.
It takes one through beautiful green vistas and a few watering holes where animals such as antelopes, nilgais, hyena, jackals, among others, can be spotted.
Though the mosaic also shows a striped hyena, an ibex, a spike-antlered spotted deer and a big-racked red stag, the hunters are clearly pursuing sport rather than food.

Examples from Classical Literature

I do not grudge the injury if that son of a hyena, pir Baksh, has been killed.
Then there were loud guffaws, and oaths, and cries like the cry of the hyena.
As he emerged the captain was on his back with all the ferocity of a hyena.
It's no wonder he drinks, hitched up to a cantankerous old hyena like that.
The laughing hyena had to be carried into the Ark and put to bed for fear she would laugh herself to death.
This animal is often known as the laughing hyena, because of the extraordinary sounds it utters when very much excited.
This species, though smaller than the striped hyena, is of a fiercer nature and more dangerous.
My husband, who went for a climb, came to pretty close quarters with a striped hyena.
The striped hyena, although the best known, is in my opinion the least interesting of his kind.
This is also a striped hyena, and nearly all naturalists have set him down as of the same species with the Hyena vulgaris.
The stomach of the hyena is valued by the Ovimbundu as a cure for apoplexy.
Beyond that, an Arab has got no more hospitality than a hyena.
But, true to his nature, before doing so he decided to play the hyena.
That hyena, I reflected, would want no more food at present.
You may as well entertain a passion for the untameable hyena.
That night he slipped through the dark, like a hyena pup, to Ringwood.
The third is found at the point called the Plateau of hyena.
One heard from the depths of the jungle the tittering of a hyena.
She had the temper of a hyena, and soon the place she ran was a witch's caldron.
Even Dango, the hyena, eater of offal, would, at the moment, have seemed a tidbit to Numa.
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The two most formidable Animal Men were my Leopard-man and a creature made of hyena and swine.
The hyena and the vulture are the scavengers of the tropical regions.
Moreover, from being so long in twilight or darkness, his eyes had acquired the faculty of distinguishing objects in the night, common to the hyena and the wolf.
She saw him dropping his keys and trying to grasp his stick, while he looked at her like an aged hyena, the muscles of his face getting distorted with the effort of his hand.

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