THE BROWN HYZNA OR STRAND WOLF 
Brown Hyznas, like others of the same tribe, are 
Nature’s scavengers, eating up the leavings of the 
lion, leopard, and cheetah, as well as sick, old, or 
maimed antelopes and other wild animals. In 
fact practically everything of a living nature from 
an insect to any warm-blooded animal in a weak 
or otherwise defenceless condition, as well as 
carrion, forms the diet of this animal.. In this 
way the Brown Hyena performed a very necessary 
part in the evolution of animal life in eating up 
matter which would otherwise decay and poison 
the air and the surrounding vegetation, for the 
bodies of animals which had died of disease would 
be one seething mass of virulent disease microbes, 
which, let loose, would infect other animals, and 
perchance be the cause of their extermination. 
Now, this is by no means the design of Nature. 
therefore the hyena comes along and gorges itself 
upon the diseased flesh, and its powerful gastric 
juices soon kill off the microbes and digest them, 
thus preventing the spread of disease amongst 
perhaps an entire herd of animals. Then, again, 
it is essential that old, decrepit, or malformed 
animals should not be allowed to live and breed, 
otherwise the great plan of the Creator in 
perfecting the various forms of life would be 
marred. 
Brown Hyznas often frequent the sea beaches, 
hence the name of Strand Wolf, which means 
Beach Wolf. These animals devour anything of 
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