Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/21

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Subject: [Leica] Striped Hyena
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:56:40 +0530

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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