HYENAS, JACKALS, WILD DOGS, Etc. 
When many hyenas are collected together feasting on the carcass of some 
large animal, they sometimes make the most extraordinary noises, 
cackling and laughing and bellowing like a troop of evil spirits. But such 
weird concerts are not often given. 
In the daytime spotted hyenas lie up in beds of reeds or amongst long 
grass, or on rocky hill-sides, though sometimes their diurnal resting- 
places are in caves. I think that these hyenas usually pass the day alone, 
but at night they collect together round the carcass of a dead animal or a 
human body. I once, however, saw thirteen spotted hyenas emerge one 
after the other from one cave in some limestone rock in British East 
Africa. This was late in the afternoon, a little before sunset, so that in 
this case these thirteen hyenas had been spending the day together, and 
were no doubt in the habit of doing so, separating and hunting singly or 
in pairs at night. 
I have sometimes put up hyenas in the daytime in good galloping 
ground, and ridden after them. I always found them possessed of great 
speed and endurance, and could never overtake one in a run of less than 
a mile. 
The females bring forth their young in burrows made by the African 
ant-eaters (aardvarks), and Bushmen have told me that the number of 
pups produced is two, but I have no personal knowledge as to whether 
this assertion is true. However, I know from personal observation that in 
the female spotted hyena with young the udders are placed very far back 
between the hind legs, and do not extend along the belly, and that she 
has only two teats. 
The striped hyena ( Hycena striata) is not, like the spotted species, an 
exclusively African animal, its true home being Southern Asia, from 
whence it has spread through Asia Minor, Syria and Arabia into Northern 
and Eastern Africa. In Abyssinia and Somaliland it is equally common 
with the larger spotted species, but to the south of the Juba River it is not 
anywhere plentiful, although met with sparingly as far south as the 
northern districts of German East Africa. In British East Africa it is 
decidedly scarce, and I have only met with it myself on the Northern 
Gwas N’yiro River near the Lorian Swamp. 
Except in Abyssinia and Somaliland, the striped hyena seldom comes 
in the way of African travellers or sportsmen. It is much more completely 
nocturnal in its habits than the larger and bolder spotted hyena, seldom 
going abroad until it is quite dark, and returning to its lair as a rule before 
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