HYAENAS. 
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The striped hyaena will not unfrequently carry off sheep and goats as well as 
dogs. Mr. Blanford states that he has never known instances of larger prey 
being taken; and he supports this statement by mentioning that the live 
animals, tied up so frequently as baits for tigers and leopards, are never 
molested by hyaenas, which are undoubtedly in the constant habit of banqueting 
on carcases of animals killed by those cats. Canon Tristram relates, however, 
THE BROWN HYiENA (Jj liat. Size). 
that in Palestine a donkey belonging to one of his servants was killed by 
a hyaena while the owner was sleeping alongside. 
The striped hyaena—probably on account of its “ body-snatching ” propensities 
—is cordially detested by the natives of all the countries it inhabits. When a 
hyaena is killed, the body is treated in many parts of India with every mark of 
indignity, and finally burnt. On one occasion in the Punjab the present writer 
came across a party of natives cruelly ill-treating a nearly full-grown hyaena, 
which had been rendered helpless by its jaws being muzzled and its feet broken. 
