Sentences with phrase «wild hyenas»

Only one of my three boys was a toddler who enjoyed sitting still to play; the other two more closely resembled wild hyenas than d...

«My usual one - liner about the event was that I was picked off by packs of wild hyenas en route to the conference reception dinner,» he wrote me in an e-mail afterward.

But that didn't keep a few wild hyenas — which I've been told were more likely cats — from scaring the crap out of me in the middle of the night.

Not exact matches

In this case, in lieu of humans, the predators — hyenas, lions and wild dogs — will be the agent (blindly, unintentionally) doing the selective breeding.

By morning, we were certain, the scavengers of the jungle — the jackals, hyenas, wild dogs — would have found the dead trophy and carried it away.

Hyenas fight epic battles with lions and African wild dogs, and take over kills that leopards and cheetahs have made.

For instance, traveling in a pack helps African wild dogs bring down large game and defend the meal from thieving lions and hyenas, so everybody gets more to eat.

Although the vultures» hooked beaks are sharp enough to pierce the hides of smaller animals, they're unable to access thick - skinned carcasses like this one without the help of larger scavengers like hyenas and wild dogs — animals still missing from this recovering ecosystem.

Among the most intelligent animals on Earth, three species of hyenas still roam in wilder parts of Africa and Asia.

Dear EarthTalk: What is the status of the hyena in the wild?

In the two decades following the epidemic, wild canids died following CDV infection but fatal CDV was not observed in lions or spotted hyenas anymore, even though high prevalence of serum antibodies against CDV in some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenas.

The CDV - H proteins from lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic had the rare amino acid combination 519I / 549H, only known from a few strains from non-canid hosts in the America II lineage, whereas all strains from domestic dogs and wild canids had common amino acid combinations frequently reported from CDV strains worldwide.

Carnivores in the Serengeti infected with CDV.Top left: bat - eared fox; Top right: African wild dog; Bottom left: spotted hyena; Bottom right: African lion.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), conducted genetic analyses of CDV strains obtained from a range of carnivores between 1993 and 2012 and discovered that lethal CDV infections in lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a rare and genetically distinct CDV strain with three rare mutations not present in any other Serengeti strain isolated from domestic dogs or wild canids.

Detailed phylogenetic analyses of several virus genes, some of which used complete CDV genomes, revealed that strains from lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic were strongly distinct from those in domestic dogs and wild canids.

We started scavenging the same carcasses that other carnivores — wild dogs and hyenas — lived on, and the more meat we ate, the more our guts SHRANK, «because we didn't need a giant vegetable processor anymore.»

They stake out a territory, and they keep out strange lions, and they will kill competitors including hyenas, African wild dogs, cheetahs, and leopards.

Their jaws and muzzles are similar to a hyenas, but Hyenas are much stronger than African Wildhyenas, but Hyenas are much stronger than African WildHyenas are much stronger than African Wild Dogs.

Domestic cats, some wild cats and their relatives — civets, genets and mongooses — purr, and even hyenas, raccoons and guinea pigs can purr.

If you encounter a creature with a bite pressure exceeding 1000 psi., you have encountered a hyena, a snapping turtle, a crocodile, or some other wild animal — not a dog.

This behavior is still observable in wild canines such as foxes, wolves and hyenas.

Vast African plains interspersed with granite kopjes, rivers, the Lebombo Mountains in the east, and a series of forests in the far north, dawn game drives, thatched roof accommodation and the eerie night chatter of hyenas or wild dogs on the prowl make this a firm favourite of any visit to the Limpopo.

The Big Five are well represented, but there is also other game, like giraffes, cheetahs, hyenas, wild dogs, zebras, wildebeests, warthogs, waterbucks, kudus and impalas.

Immediately in front of the car is an African wild dog or hyena dog, at the center of the spotlight.

Lions stalked a warthog, hyenas attacked their competitors, wild dogs and giraffe crossed the road.

The Big 5 Madikwe Game Reserve, consisting of reclaimed farm land, is famous for the ambitious re-stocking program «Operation Phoenix» and is now home to the big five and is famous for its wild dog and spotted hyena.

Aside from rhino the reserve has over 340 species of bird, a large and healthy elephant population, cheetah, hippo, hyena, jackal, giraffe and wild dog.

Enjoying a jungle safari at this park allows for open sightings of tigers, sambar, chital, nilgai, chinkara, wild boar, sloth bear, hyena, jackal and leopard.

Finally, the wild and beautiful Mana Pools National Park, one of Zimbabwe's most popular parks, where large mammals, lions, leopards, cheetahs and hyenas, over 350 bird species and aquatic wildlife live.

We offer no luxuries, except the unbelievable night skies with no light or air pollution and free sounds of the wild most nights; the roar of lions and quite regularly leopards, the howling of hyenas, the chattering of monkeys that will try to steal all your food if you allow them and above all... deafening silence.

From hyenas and wildebeests to warthogs and wild dogs, these unique images show the secret lives of Africa's elusive animals.

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Lion, hyena and rhinoceros would invade the wild plains of what is now southern England, and now - vanished species of humans would hunt big game and gather fruit and seeds in the valleys and forests of Europe and America.

«But packs of hyenas are a big threat in the wild.»