The animal has killed two goats, belonging to the residents of Waddy Yamib, a village in the Elva protection area with a large population of Egypt. In order to protect their livestock, the villagers chased carnivores with a pickup truck and killed them.
When Abudra Nazi, an animalian at Al Azhar in Cairo, received a hunting video from a colleague in the area, he thought he was mischievous.
“I was asking,” Where are you actually? Because it doesn't exist in Japan, “said Dr. Nagi. “Are you convinced that you didn't cross Sudan or something?”
The additional photos provided convincing evidence: a spots traveled to Egypt, about 300 miles north of the closest population of Sudan's animals. Hyena's observation is the first record that Egyptian mammals were well understood in 5,000 years.
The other two hyena species -striped hyenas and Ardwolf can be found in Egypt. However, the spots were extinct in front of Millennium because the local climate was dry and dry. At this time, the Ivoy and the zebra have disappeared from Egypt.
Dr. NAGY said that EL-KHOLY and the other two colleagues had announced the details of the encounter in mammals this month.
Dr. Nagagi said that Hyena's witness left him as “distrust”, but Christine Wilkinson, a ecojologist and hyena expert at the University of California University of Santa Cruz, is not a California science Academy. It was.
“To be honest, Hyenas can't surprise me,” she said. “They are very active animals that can work in various situations.”
Spotted Hyenas has a reputation for being a scavenger, but hunt most of the food you actually eat. They live in a large, complex family -headed society, called a clan similar to a social group of some primates like higs. Dr. Wilkinson said, a skilled problem solved, they can do it with caterpillar meals and prey of the baby elephant.
Some people live among people, as Harrah, the city of Ethiopia, which is nourished and respected by the locals.
Hyena with spots is the largest among the four living hyena species, throughout Africa, south of Sahara. In areas where other large predators on the continent are struggling, the hyena seems to be holding it firmly.
Andrew Jacobson, a conservation biologist at Katova University in North Carolina, said, “We are discovering that spots are doing very well.
It seemed to be reflected in the research of Dr. Naggie and his colleagues. In order to know how hyenas have traveled to Egypt, they analyzed the satellite images of vegetation in this area. They are usually dried and banned in recent periods of raining, which increases the growth of plants, and potentially potentially gaze -like gazelms for hunt for hyenas. I discovered what I brought.
Dr. Jacobson, Dr. Wilkinson, and other colleagues have updated the spots in a highen range map in cooperation with the International Nature Conservation Alliance. Dr. Jacobson said he would like to submit a new map for publishing this year.
Just as Dr. Wilkinson is calling them, some spots are going smoothly, but others seem to be struggling. Dr. Jacobson said that there is a possibility that Hyena may decrease in West Africa and Central Africa.
One of the biggest threats to animals, as the fate of Egyptian hyena shows, is conflict with humans. When hyenas killed livestock, Dr. Wilkinson said that people often kill them to protect their livelihood.
“They can't take the risk of losing one of the small flocks of one cow and goats to hyenas,” she added. “It's a very complicated problem.”
There was a sudden end of this sporty trip to Egypt, but in some ways, animals live in a way. When Dr. Nazi first learned that Hyena was killed, he asked the people of Woody Yamib to fill it out to protect it from breakdown. He hopes to travel to the village next month, gather skeletons, and return to his university museum for studying.
“It's rotten, so I can't analyze it,” said Dr. Nagagi. “The skeleton itself will provide a very valuable insight.”
