There are rarely more than ten animals in a group. 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. 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. When they turn up in a pack, they don't confine themselves to the removal of animal corpses, but also go hunting for living animals.