THE SPOTTED HYANA 
When carrion is insufficient for its needs, and 
flocks and herds are in its neighbourhood, it at 
once turns its attention to them, and the stock 
farmer has a bad time until he succeeds in killing it. 
The Spotted Hyzna has large massive teeth and 
powerful jaws, enabling it to crush the hardest 
bones to fine splinters with ease. In fact, it pos- 
sesses stronger jaws and teeth than any other 
living animal. 
This hyena invariably attacks stock by first 
tearing: out the bowels with its terrible teeth, 
which at once cripples. the animal, allowing it to 
fall an easy prey. If a bull or stallion is bold 
enough to show fight, the Spotted Hyzna at once 
beats a retreat. Hunters, knowing its sneaking, 
timid nature, usually hobble their horses, for, if 
attacked by a hyzna and finding it impossible to 
gallop off, the animals, in desperation, usually brace 
themselves to do battle with their foe, and a spirited 
horse is no mean antagonist, for he can use his 
heels and teeth at times with great effect. 
A friend relates an instance of an attack on the 
horses of himself and friends when hunting in the 
Kalahari. The animals were hobbled, and were 
quietly nibbling the sparse vegetation when a pair 
of Spotted Hyznas made a sudden rush from 
behind a sandhill. The horses neighed shrilly in 
the extremity of their terror, and two fell headlong 
in their attempts to gallop away, but one wiry little 
Basuto pony, quick as thought, wheeled and made 
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