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Among the Bone Eaters
Biologists studying large carnivores in wild places usually do so from a distance, using telemetry and noninvasive methods of data collection. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Africa’s second-largest carnivores, up close—and in a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants? In Among the Bone Eaters, Marcus Baynes-Rock takes us to the ancient city of Harar in Ethiopia, where the gey waraba (hyenas of the city) are welcome in the streets and appreciated by the locals for the protection they provide from harmful spirits and dangerous “mountain” hyenas. They’ve even become a local tourist attraction. At the start of his research in Harar, Baynes-Rock ...
Hyena Nights & Kalahari Days
In this fascinating account of scientific study among forbidding wilderness, a husband-and-wife team describe their trek to the Kalahari to study the little-known brown hyena. The details of the scientific inquiry are provided while the daily challenges of living with children 420 kilometers from the nearest town are described. Despite the hardships, the couple becomes so enchanted by these intelligent animals that they stay for 12 years, documenting many hyena clans and observing behavior only a handful of people have ever seen.
The Spotted Hyena
In this seminal study, Hans Kruuk redefines the image of the spotted hyena, not as a common scavenger, but as a complex matriarchal predator with links to human evolution. The Spotted Hyena is the first study to capture the true behavior and ecology of these formidable predators, who instinctively adapt their social structure to meet their ecological needs. Kruuk's research reveals for the first time that hyenas combine carnivorous habits with group territoriality, thus drawing parallels between their existence and that of wolves, lions, and arguably early humans. In addition to being lovable rogues, spotted hyenas are sophisticated hunters that live in complex communities of up to 80 animal...
Hyenas
At about the height of large dogs, hyenas aren't the world's biggest predators. But they make up for their size with speed and stamina. A hyena can keep chasing prey for more than 3 miles! Readers will learn about what makes hyenas such deadly predators, from their hunting styles to what they like to eat. Fun Facts and an Amazing but True section will thrill readers and give them a closer look at the lives of these fierce creatures.
Hyena
Offering fascinating insight into life in the grassland, this book follows a hyena through its day as it sleeps, eats, and moves.
By His Touch
Miracles Happen: This real life, personal account describes a modern-day miracle regarding visions of the Virgin Mary and supernatural healing. In 1991, in a remote Philippine town, a young 15 year old girl was suddenly the victim of an unusual medical condition-her brain began to be painfully compressed by its own life supporting cerebral fluids. The girl's father, Rolando, was helpless and his lack of faith provided little cause for hope. Then, on November 10, 1991, a miracle began that forever changed Rolando, his daughter, and their relationship with God. By His Touch is Rolando's personal diary set within the exotic island of Panay in central Philippines. Within its pages he shares the day by day true life reflections chronicling the horror of his daughter's initial diagnosis, her eventual awe-inspiring healing, her communications with the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his own spiritual renewal that occurred as a result over the years that followed.
Hyena
Hyenas are almost universally regarded as nasty, scheming charlatans that skulk in the back alleyways of the animal kingdom. They have been scorned for centuries as little more than scavenging carrion-eaters, vandals, and thieves. Here to restore the Hyena’s reputation is Mikita Brottman, who offers an alternate view of these mistreated and misunderstood creatures and proves that they are complex, intelligent, and highly sociable animals. Investigating representations of the hyena throughout history, Brottman divulges that the hyena, though shrouded in taboo, has been the source of talismanic objects since the ancient Greek and Roman empires. She discovers that many cultures use parts of t...
The Hyena & Other Men
Many myths surround the Hyena Men who haunt the peripheries of Nigeria's cities. Accompanied by hyenas, rock pythons and baboons, these men earn a living by performing before crowds and selling traditional medicines. Pieter Hugo's extraordinary portraits of their liminal existence reveal an uncanny world of complex, codependent relationships, where familiar distinctions between dominance and submission, wildness and domesticity, tradition and modernity are constantly subverted.
Time for Change
Lions rule the savanna and are taught to hate hyenas. Then Mya the Lion and Asia the Hyena both get caught by a trapper and have to work together to escape. When they return home, they have to deal with protests and a face-off between their species, and Mya has to decide: Should she rest easy in her lion power or speak up for her new hyena friend?
