VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

STRIPED HYAENA

Striped hyaena (Hyaena hyaena)

• Broad head with pointed and upstanding ears.
• Its legs and feet are typically those of a dog.
• Walks on its toes and massive head with weak hind quarters and a heavy dorsal crest of long hairs that are sharply defined from the rest of the coat.
• Transverse stripes are present on body and the limbs are well defined.
• Bone-eater and are scavengers.
• The excreta is peculiar and it dries into hard white balls and appears to have crushed bone.