[Leica] Striped Hyena

[ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)]

you continue to whet my appetite

ric


On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> The rarest sighting we had during our Tanzanian trip was undoubtedly
> spending quite some time with a Striped Hyena and her cub on two occasions,
> both around dusk. Let me point out that these animals are completely
> nocturnal - so the rarity is in seeing them, not that they are endangered
> or anything like that. Our driver, Ken, with 12 years of safari driving in
> East Africa behind him, had only seen them briefly a couple of times in all
> those years. They are almost completely scavengers, and this has led to
> them being unloved across their range (Africa, Middle East and South Asia)
> because of their purported habit of scavenging from human graves
> 
> Both the days we saw the pair, the light was crummy, but here goes anyway -
> the brown mound is the den:
> 
> Feeding the Cub:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120304_06333.jpg.html
> 
> Cracking Bones (it looked like a portion of an animal skull):
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120305_07237.jpg.html
> 
> Play 1:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120305_07309.jpg.html
> 
> Play 2:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Tanzania+2012/Tanzania_20120305_07322.jpg.html
> 
> Please see large.
> 
> Comments and Criticism, as usual, welcome.
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
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