video: A glimpse of a striped hyaena
Category: General | Date: Jul 21 2008 | By: Seamus
On the weekend I was trying to catch a large male lion from a group to the south of here. I accidentally caught a striped hyaena in the trap. I though people might be interested to see what these guys look like, seeing as there seems to be some interest in hyaenas at the moment on this blog. After the reversal for the anaesthetic was administered, this guy went on his way. This was on Saturday night.
Tannie-T: That sounds pleasant: cuppaccinos on Pearl street by day and lion catching by night. I’ll come there and catch your wayward lion, if you can do something about weather prediction here. The mets here have about as much insight into the state of the world as the writers of horoscopes in cosmo.
DB and W: I’m afraid to say I’m not up to speed with hyaena vocalisation theory. These are very interesting questions though. As for the A before E thing (or the no E thing)… Mr Astaire points out that we should call the whole thing off. Ah well.
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3 Responses to “video: A glimpse of a striped hyaena”
Wim, on 22 Jul 2008
Thanks for that, it’s a treat to see a striped hyaena.
How on earth do you trap Lions?
kd, on 22 Jul 2008
stealthily
Seamus, on 23 Jul 2008
Most of the time I use a leg-hold type of trap. Its a modified, humane cable snare that closes around the leg. We’ve adapted it from a technique used on bears in the US.
Instead of cuttin’ n’ pastin I’ll just give you the link that will explain more clearly:
http://lionconservation.org/conervinglions.htm
“stealthily” is almost as good as one of my other smart-ass answer that I give: “with difficulty”
Have a great day, my loyal blog consumers… more later.
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