Family of mammals in the order Carnivora.
1Here are the spotted hyaena, with its young; and the striped hyaena.
2The hyaena hailed our approach with unmistakable relief and demonstrations of friendliness.
3The little hyaena gazed at him in surprise, saying to herself, 'What!
4I saw, moving in the doubtful shadows of approaching night, the grave-digging hyaena!
5He has the cowardice and the ferocity of the hyaena.
6All that have stayed are the larger carnivora, like the hyaena or the lion.
7Cutter knew them from pictures: the glucliche, hyaena hunching under bone and leather batwings.
8Elsewhere and by nature the hyaena is an arrant coward.
9I touched the trigger, and the hyaena fell dead, with the bullet through its head.
10The hyaena may be equally certain that it has.
11This the hyaena could not find stomach to face.
12The leopard, hyaena, lynx, and beaver are comparatively rare.
13A similarly connected movement between the hind-quarters and the tail may be observed in the hyaena.
14Mr. Gordon Cumming supposes it to form the connecting link between the wolf and the hyaena.
15Among carnivorous beasts there is not a more contemptible poltroon than the hyaena, even when wounded.
16A hyaena's head stared at him, tongue lolling.