Hyenas

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Hyenas

• By Samantha Benson and Kerion D. James-Rivers

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Classification

• Hyaenidae family
• Order carnavora
• Mammal
• 3 species, they are aardwolf, spotted, striped
• vertabrey

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Habitat

• Live in holes
• Among rocks
• Dense vegitation
• Africa
• Grasslands
• Savannas

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Adaptations

• Strong jaws for breaking bones and ripping meat
• Spotted hyenas are mean so they can hunt and
  defend young
• Striped hyenas are scavengers so they can collect
  food because they arent as mean

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Diet / Prey

• Aardwolfs (a small hyena ) eats mostly termites
• Spotted hyenas hunt animals of various sizes,
  humans, and bones
• Striped hyenas eat any leftover food
• Spotted ONLY eat humans on ocason

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Interesting Facts

• 1 6 hyenas are born in a litter
• Spotted hyenas can eat something 3 times its
  weight
• Hyenas have many varieties of vocalization, it
  includes wailing calls, howling screams, and the
  well known laughter , are used to alert others
  about 3 miles away