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Answer : HYENA
Hyena, (family Hyaenidae), also spelled hyaena, any of three species of coarse-furred, doglike carnivores found in Asia and Africa and noted for their scavenging habits. Hyenas have long forelegs and a powerful neck and shoulders for dismembering and carrying prey. Hyenas are tireless trotters with excellent sight, hearing, and smell for locating carrion, and they are proficient hunters as well. All hyenas are more or less nocturnal.
Intelligent, curious, and opportunistic in matters of diet, hyenas frequently come into contact with humans. The spotted, or laughing, hyena (Crocuta crocuta) is the largest species and will burglarize food stores, steal livestock, occasionally kill people, and consume wastes—habits for which they are usually despised, even by the Masai, who leave out their dead for hyenas. Even so, hyena body parts are sought for traditional tokens and potions made to cure barrenness, grant wisdom, and enable the blind to find their way around. Brown hyenas (Parahyaena brunnea or sometimes Hyaena brunnea) are blamed for many livestock deaths that they probably do not cause. Similarly, from North Africa eastward to India, striped hyenas (H. hyaena) are blamed when small children disappear and for supposedly attacking small livestock and digging up graves. In consequence, some populations have been persecuted nearly to extinction. All three species are in decline outside protected areas.
Spotted hyenas range south of the Sahara except in rainforests. They are ginger-coloured with patterns of dark spots unique to each individual, and females are larger than males. Weighing up to 82 kg (180 pounds), they can measure almost 2 metres (6.6 feet) long and about 1 metre tall at the shoulder. Spotted hyenas communicate using moans, yells, giggles, and whoops, and these sounds may carry several kilometres. Gestation is about 110 days, and annual litter size is usually two cubs, born in any month.
More Clues
- MANED Like an aardwolf
- LLAMA Cousin of an alpaca
- ALEUT Cousin of an Eskimo, you, et al.
- ELAND Cousin of an impala
- PATTY Cousin of an empanada
- SABER Cousin of an epee
- TANGERINE Cousin of an orange
- INST Cousin of an acad.
- A S S N Cousin of an org.
- ASP Cousin of an adder
- RHEA Cousin of an ostrich
- LEEK Cousin of an onion
- VIAL Cousin of an ampule
- EMU Australian cousin of an ostrich
- HAWK Cousin of an eagle or buzzard
- ADJ Cousin of an adv.
- I T T Cousin of an “ooky” TV family
- OLOGIE Cousin of an ism, in French
- BROWN BETTY Cousin of an apple cobbler
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