### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Hyena
* All hyenas are usually nocturnal.
* Most hyenas adapt to environments
  - are known as hyenas
  - become hunters
  - come into frequent contact
  - develop necks
* Most hyenas eat elands
  - food
  - foxes
  - gazelles
  - lions
* Most hyenas grab large prey
* Most hyenas has-part jaws
  - organs
* Most hyenas have ability
  - bones
  - hearts
  - locations
  - nipples
  - penises
  - powerful jaws
  - properties
  - reproductive organs
  - ribs
  - roles
  - skulls
  - strong jaws
* Most hyenas kill food
* Most hyenas live in Africa, though there are some in Asia
  - brushes
  - communities
  - regions
  - societies
  - occupy ranges
* Most hyenas possess organs
* Most hyenas produce noise
  - whoop noise
* Most hyenas reach maturity
  - sexual maturity
  - respond to scent
  - survive in habitats
* Most hyenas survive on diets
  - insectivorous diets
* Some hyenas are inside groups.
* Some hyenas eat fruit
  - lizards
  - escape from zoos
  - go after prey
* Some hyenas have benefits
* Some hyenas kill bison
  - dogs
  - herbivores
  - large herbivores
  - mammal reptiles
  - learn skills
* Some hyenas live in craters
  - districts
  - terrains
* Some hyenas look like dogs
  - large dogs
  - possess hair
* Some hyenas prey on calves
  - young calves
  - stay with mothers
  - steal food
* Some hyenas survive for long periods
  - watch hyenas
* adapt their specific hunting strategy to the environment in which they live
* also communicate by body posture and by scent marking
  - feed on zebras and gazelles
  - use their calls and scent marks to claim their territory
* are Africa's second largest predator capable of killing prey three times their own weight
  - actually more related to cats
  - also important to the study of the evolution of carnivores
  - apex predators that sit at the top of the food chain
  - associated with various negative connotations in many cultures
  - born with teeth, which means that sometimes when the cubs fight they can kill each other
  - canines
  - dog like creatures having front legs longer than their hind legs
  - frightened and elephants follow the wind
  - for their stamina and can cover long distances
  - modern-day scavengers
  - more closely related to the mongoose and cat than the dog
  - neither cats nor dogs, but in a family all their own
* are primarily scavengers and they are very opportunistic in finding food
  - on the already dead
  - scavengers, but what people don t know is that they re also great hunters
  - skillful hunters with muscular bodies and sharp teeth
  - stuck with their lot in life, unable to move up the hierarchy
  - very social and live in groups called clans
* attack animals.
* bite necks.
* can digest almost anything, including the teeth, bone, and horns of their prey
  - even the toughest parts of an animal, leaving behind few scraps for scavengers
  - eat one-third their body weight at one meal
* can go for several days without water
  - without water for several days
  - survive without water for several days
* cause more panic among the birds than actual mortalities.
* come into contact
* communicate with each other using calls and body positions.
* consume animals
  - hartebeests
  - very fast as the fastest hyena gets the most food
* establish territory.
* go through elaborate greeting ceremonies involving a lengthy genital inspection.
* have a highly developed sense of smell, and their eyesight is poor
  - keen sense of smell
  - large head and strong jaws filled with huge teeth used to crush bone
  - range of vocal sounds, including one that sounds like laughter when they are excited
  - short, rough coat that is mottled, containing brown, tan and red colors
  - wide diet range and are both hunters and scavengers
* have extremely powerful digestive system and consume wide range of animals and vegetation
  - strong jaws adapted to crush animal bone
  - heads
  - large scent glands on their rears
* hide their food in holes.
* hunt calves
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - nuclei
  - pads
  - paws
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
* live in brushes
  - territorial social groups called clans
* need water.
* often forage the shoreline looking for dead fish
  - hunt in a group, isolating and chasing down a weak or old animal from a herd of prey
* only expose their lower teeth in threat.
* prefer to live in open scrubland, arid, and savanna.
* range from East Africa up to Southern Asia.
* stay in their own territory.
* travel long distances and mix with other predators at kills.
* typically take unenclosed livestock at night.
* use watering holes as places to cool off or to hide extra food.
* usually hunt at night
  - lose their kills and have to wait for lions to finish eating
* want gazelles.