Spotted Hyena
Scientific Name:
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Crocuta Crocuta
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Common Name(s):
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Laughing Hyena
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Hyaena
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Hyena
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Status:
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Conservation Dependant
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Estimated Population:
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27,000-47,000
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Population Trend:
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Decreasing
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Threats:
Habitat loss and degradation; poaching and hunting, hide, meat, trophy, for
Traditional Medicine, for pets; farmers, fearsof livestock losses, retaliatory,
false persecution, overgrazing of prey land by cattle; humans, as target
practice, conflict, enroachment; disease; competition with lions.
Range:
South of the Sahara, Spotted Hyenas are present in many countries: Angola;
Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Central African
Republic;
Chad; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte
d'Ivoire; Djibouti; Equatorial Guinea; Ethiopia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana;
Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Mozambique;
Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South
Africa; Sudan; Swaziland; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda; Zambia;
Zimbabwe.
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