As we crept quietly through the acacia bushes, I could hear growling and scratching. There, pacing back and forth inside the trap and obviously a little angry, was a powerful-looking spotted hyena. Sometime during the night, it had tried to sample the smelly meat and stepped into the metal cage. Jason approached the animal with tenderness and care, as if it were the family pet. Hyenas have gotten the short end of the stick, he complained as he prepared a tranquilizer dart to knock the animal out.
Hyenas are scavengers, but what people don t know is that they re also great hunters.
They re as good as lions are when it comes to hunting. Hyenas aren't picky either. They ll eat almost anything that moves. With powerful jaws and digestive tracts like garbage disposals, they can eat a cow - bones and all in a matter of hours. The only things hyenas leave behind are small pellets of hair, horn, and hooves that they ve puked up after eating.