{"id":3224,"date":"2025-01-31T22:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T22:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-spotted-hyena-turns-up-in-egypt-after-a-5000-absence\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T22:11:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T22:11:36","slug":"a-spotted-hyena-turns-up-in-egypt-after-a-5000-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-spotted-hyena-turns-up-in-egypt-after-a-5000-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spotted Hyena Turns Up in Egypt After a 5,000 Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The animal killed two goats belonging to residents of Wadi Yahmib, a village within the sparsely populated Elba Protected Area of Egypt. To protect their livestock, the villagers chased down the carnivore in a pickup truck and killed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Abdullah Nagy, a zoologist at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, received a video of the hunt from a colleague who was in the region, he thought he was being pranked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI was asking, \u2018Where are you actually? Because that species doesn\u2019t exist in our country,\u2019\u201d Dr. Nagy said. \u201c\u2018Are you sure that you didn\u2019t cross into Sudan or something?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Additional photos offered persuasive proof: A spotted hyena had crossed into Egypt, about 300 miles north of the nearest known population of the animals in Sudan. The observation of the hyena is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/mammalia-2024-0031\/html?lang=en&amp;srsltid=AfmBOoqa7AnBhMNBMjG91Sq-Rfq9-EWpXo-O7cAWdEBxxxlK_tbjx9Cg\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the first record of the oft-misunderstood mammal in Egypt<\/a> in 5,000 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two other hyena species \u2014 the striped hyena and the aardwolf \u2014 can be found in Egypt. But spotted hyenas went extinct in the country <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/full\/10.1073\/pnas.1408471111\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">millenniums ago<\/a> as the regional climate became dryer and more arid. Warthogs and zebras also disappeared from Egypt at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Nagy, Said El-Kholy and two other colleagues published details of the encounter in the journal Mammalia this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Dr. Nagy said the hyena sighting left him in \u201cdisbelief,\u201d Christine Wilkinson, a carnivore ecologist and hyena specialist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the California Academy of Sciences, wasn\u2019t fazed in the slightest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTo be honest with you, spotted hyenas cannot surprise me,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are just incredibly behaviorally flexible animals that can make it work in all different circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Spotted hyenas have a reputation for being scavengers, but they actually hunt most of the food they eat themselves. They live in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/full\/10.1098\/rstb.2006.1993\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">large, complex matriarchal societies<\/a> called clans, which are similar to the social groups of some primates like baboons. Adept <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/full\/10.1098\/rspb.2012.1450\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">problem solvers<\/a>, they can make do on a diet of caterpillars or <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/africageographic.com\/stories\/hyenas-eat-baby-elephant-mother-watches-helplessly-elephants-stuck-mud\/#agtravel-1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">prey on baby elephants<\/a>, Dr. Wilkinson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some even <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2076-2615\/10\/12\/2400\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">live among people<\/a>, as they do in Harar, an Ethiopian city where they <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/apr\/05\/hyenas-harar-ethiopia-how-city-fell-in-love-with-its-bone-crunching-scavengers-aoe\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">are fed and revered<\/a> by locals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Spotted hyenas are the largest of the four living hyena species and are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa; in regions where other big predators on the continent are struggling, the hyenas seem to be holding firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhat we\u2019re discovering is that the spotted hyenas are doing really quite well, probably better than the other large carnivores\u201d like lions, leopards and cheetahs, said Andrew Jacobson, a conservation biologist at Catawba College in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That seemed to be reflected in Dr. Nagy and his colleagues\u2019 research. To figure out how the hyena might have made the journey into Egypt, they analyzed satellite images of the vegetation in the area. They found that the region, normally dry and forbidding, has been in a recent wet period, which has led to more plant growth and, potentially, more herbivores like gazelles for hyenas to hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Jacobson, Dr. Wilkinson and other colleagues are working with the International Union for Conservation of Nature to update a spotted hyena range map. The team hopes to submit the new map for publication sometime this year, Dr. Jacobson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Though some spotties, as Dr. Wilkinson calls them, are doing well, others seem to be struggling. Dr. Jacobson said there are possible declines of the hyenas in parts of west and central Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of the biggest threats to the animals is conflict with humans, as the fate of the Egyptian hyena shows. When hyenas kill livestock, Dr. Wilkinson said, people often feel that they have to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/30\/science\/striped-hyena-lebanon.html\" title=\"\">kill them to protect their livelihoods<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey can\u2019t take the risk to lose their one cow or their small herd of goats to hyenas,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s a very complicated issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Though this spottie\u2019s trip to Egypt had an abrupt end, the animal will live on, in a way, in the country. When Dr. Nagy first learned that the hyena had been killed, he asked people in Wadi Yahmib to bury it to protect it from decomposing. He hopes to travel to the village next month to collect the skeleton and bring it back to his university\u2019s museum for study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be able to dissect it, because it will be decayed,\u201d Dr. Nagy said. \u201cThe skeleton itself would provide very valuable insights.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a 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