Sentence examples for their hyena from inspiring English sources

Your neighbors will start their hyena calls, now that the alcohol is in them.

With your gun at their heads, heh heh!' And he and Marin go into one of their hyena fits.

(Cotter) ★ PIETER HUGO: 'THE HYENA AND OTHER MEN' This photographer, based in Johannesburg, has produced a series of amazing large-scale portraits of animal handlers who roam Nigeria and entertain people with their hyenas, baboons and snakes.

Hugo spent months with a group of itinerant wild animal trainers, their children, hyenas and monkeys, in an urban settlement beneath a motorway in Lagos.

We talked with him a while back about his experience shooting Nigerian entertainers-cum-debt-collectors known for their pet hyenas, which the townfolk consider to be witches.

Although they do not wag their tails, spotted hyenas will flick their tails when approaching dominant animals or when there is a slight tendency to flee.

At one point in their evolution, spotted hyenas developed sharp carnassials behind their crushing premolars; this rendered waiting for their prey to die no longer a necessity, as is the case for brown and striped hyenas, and thus became pack hunters as well as scavengers.

She has watched cubs emerge from their dens and take their place in the hyena hierarchy; she has seen alliances form and collapse.

During their entire life, hyenas form coalitions against competitors to defend their social ranks [ 47].

In divorcing the Hyena Men and their beasts from their performance context, he accentuates rather than reduces their otherness.

Because of their size, adult hyenas are incapable of using the full extent of their burrows, as most tunnels are dug by cubs or smaller animals.