Doglike nocturnal mammal (Var.)

Usage examples of hyaena.

Now, as light stayed longer every day, the bears and hyaenas and bony hippos, the lonely alopex and the apes, lay stilltensely, it seemedfor hours, watching the passers-by from their scrubbed-brick cells and their muddy trenches.

But from somewhere back in the bush, drums rumbled sullenly through all the hours of darkness, a satanic-sounding accompaniment to the lunatic cackles of hyaenas, the hissings and bellowings of crocodiles, the low coughing of leopards, and the hundred and one other noises made by other feasters on the cleared land outside the walls.

Sir Richard said so, and he has been in countries where hyaenas live, so he ought to know.

By nightfall they had seen thousands of antelope and tens of thousands of birds, but no sign of elephant, and they camped out in a grove of thorn trees while Tumo and Karenja took turns standing guard, surrounded by the night sounds of the veldt: the high-pitched giggling of hyaenas, the coughing of a lion on the prowl, the frightened bark of a zebra.

Shundi, and the birds will eat my eyes, and the ants will eat my flesh, and the hyaenas will devour my bones.

Nile to the Red Sea, three were killed by the Ethiopians, and the last, the star of my hopes, by this time is eaten by the hyaenas of the north.

This fellow charged Nobs, whose Capronian experiences had taught him that discretion is the better part of valor--with the result that he dived head foremost into the stream beside me after giving vent to a series of ferocious growls which had no more effect upon Hyaena spelaeus than might a sweet smile upon an enraged tusker.