The groups are rarely bigger than ten animals. They demarcate their territory with urine and faeces and chase members of other packs away.
Spotted hyenas are night animals.
They spend most of the day in earth holes. The young ones stay in these caves for a long time. Best to watch in the Kruger, Kalahari and Etosha National Parks. The spotted hyena is often scorned as a carrion eater, although it actually makes a valuable contribution to the ecological balance in the nature parks. Hyenas have the strongest teeth and jaws of all the animal species and can even crack the bones of the biggest prey.