Meanwhile, only 5,000 to 8,000 Brown
hyenas today roam parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
«In this respect they are believed to have behaved in a similar way to
hyenas today,» said the study's lead author, Steven E. Jasinski, a student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science in Penn's School of Arts & Sciences and acting curator of paleontology and geology at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
Not exact matches
One example is the spotted
hyena, which is living in Africa
today, but which appeared also in Europe during the glacial period.