WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



their food to their holes for the young. This food is 

 often shared by vultures of different kinds, who fear- 

 lessly walk among the old and young hyenas, as if they 

 belonged to the family. It is, indeed, remarkable to see, 

 as I often have seen in the daytime, hyenas, jackals, and 

 hundreds of vultures and marabous assembled about 

 the carcass of big animals without fear of one another, 

 each bent on getting its fill of carrion. The jackals 

 and hyenas attack the belly and eat their way into its 

 cavity. Once I saw five hyenas running out of the 

 body of a dead elephant which had been killed by a 

 professional hunter. 



I have often heard their hideous howl as they prowled 

 around my camp at night-time. They frequently vent- 

 ured within to carry off meat and whatever they could 

 seize — skins, pieces of leather, etc. 



My pictures of hyenas, taken at night, show how 

 greedily they seize upon carrion bait. Their strength 

 is remarkable, as is proven by my picture depicting 

 a spotted hyena taking hold of and dragging away a 

 dead ass. R. Boehm tells us that he has seen hyenas 

 carrying off the dead bodies of human beings. Re- 

 markable are the cunning and the cowardice of the 

 hyena, making it very difficult to kill or to photograph 

 the animal by baiting for it. Its senses of scent and 

 hearing are so acute that it will not approach carrion 

 until reasonably sure that no enemy is hiding near by. 



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