The Spotted Hyena

The Hyena ia a vaguely bearlike large animal with a sturdy build. The hyena has a large head, broad, rounded ears. It's coat is rough, comparatively short and is reddish brown to tan in color growing lighter with age. The tail and nose are black.

The spotted hyena has the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom
Hyena are cunning and resourceful. Although usually considered scavengers they pick over kills made by large carnivores, they also hunt and kill a variety of prey

FACTS

Height: Hyenas stand 28 to 35 inces high at the shoulder.
Weight: 90 to 190 pounds.

Habitat: Savannas, grasslands, woodlands, forest edges, subdeserts and mountains to 13,000 feet. The hyena is the most abundant large carnivore in areas where antelopes and zebras are found in masses. A formidable scavenger that lives wherever animal resources are adequate.


The Hyena
Diet: Omnivorous scavenger. The hyena eats vertebrates of all kinds, especially hoofed mammals, it seldom eats invertebrates, fruits, or vegetables. Utilizes carcasses of large vertebrates more efficiently than other carnivores. Eats everything but rumen contents and horn bosses of the biggest antelopes, even deriving nourishment from mummified carcasses. Bones, horns, hooves, even teeth are digested completely within 24 hours.

Reproduction: 2 young per litter.
Gestation: Gestation is 4 months.
Hyenas mature at 3 years,and females later then the males.
enemy of the hyena is the Lion, leopard, eagles and strange hyena