Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/24

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Subject: [Leica] Striped Hyena
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:29:55 +0100
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Nice to see these animals. They have an (undeserved) bad rap from the Lion 
King. My dog is a hyena. When we go for walks she is just looking for stuff 
to eat--although I must say that she does not eat the birds and mice the cat 
kills.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA



On Mar 21, 2012, at 4:26 PM, 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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