Brown hyena

Africa is home to a vast array of wildlife. Here is a list of some of the most common and most popular species.

In the South African Red Data Book, the status of the brown hyena is given as rare. The global population size is estimated to be below 10,000 individuals, and because of this small size and deliberate and incidental persecution, the status of the brown hyena is now Lower Risk: near threatened (IUCN 2000).

We were fortunate enough to visit one of our favourite places in the world for 7 nights in September, a place called Limpopo-Lipadi Private Game and Wilderness reserve... Limpopo-Lipadi is located in the Tuli-block in South Eastern Botswana. See www.limpopo-lipadi.org Starting with our favourite mammal...the leopard! As those who know us are aware, we initiated a leopard identification project on the reserve. As this area is "raw", we decided it would be amazing to get to know individual…

Hyena with a mohawk

The brown hyena, also called strandwolf, is a species of hyena found in Namibia, Botswana, western and southern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and South Africa. It is currently the rarest species of hyena

Brown Hyena / Hyène brune / Image by safrounet from flickr

Fish-snatching eagles, whales and rare brown hyenas are among the pick of this week’s images from the natural world

Hyena cub - Lower Sabie KNP - Laura Dyer

rare seen Brown Hyena, Parahyaena brunnea or Hyaena brunnea, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa

The brown hyena lives in the Sothern parts of the African continent, it's a medium sized carnivore, the size difference between the sexes are not very noticeable, but the males are a little bigger tha

Striped Hyena 01 | Camera ModelCanon EOS 5D Mark II Shooting… | Flickr

Brown hyena cub

Another picture of my favorite animal https://www.facebook.com/99206759699/photos/a.138830229699.109404.99206759699/10153947744574700/?type=3&theater

Striped hyena, a species of hyena, native to North and East Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.