Spotted Hyena

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Hyenas are tough, bone-crushing predators with a cackling call echoing over African savannas and Asian deserts. Spotted clans led by fierce females hunt and scavenge, while striped cousins prowl solo at night. By clearing carcasses they curb disease, yet persecution and habitat loss threaten them.

Habitat: The Spotted Hyena can be found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina-faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central-african-rep, Chad, Congo, Dem-rep-congo, Cote-d-ivoire, Djibouti, Eq-guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra-leone, Somalia, South-africa, S-sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Gabon