{"id":12539,"date":"2023-06-27T01:23:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12539"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:52:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:22:04","slug":"what-are-hyenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-hyenas\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Hyenas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Hyenas:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hyenas are <strong>doglike carnivores<\/strong> found in <strong>Asia and Africa<\/strong> and are noted for their <strong>scavenging habits<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Family: Hyaenidae<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>three hyena species<\/strong> \u2014 <strong>spotted<\/strong> (Crocuta crocuta), <strong>brown<\/strong> (Arahyaena brunnea), <strong>and striped<\/strong> (Hyaena hyaena). <strong>Spotted hyenas are the largest<\/strong> of the three.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat<\/strong>: <strong>Forest edges, grasslands, savannas<\/strong>, sub-deserts, and even mountains at an elevation of about 13,000 feet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: These animals live throughout <strong>Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>They are four-legged animals with <strong>scraggly fur and large ears<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They have <strong>long forelegs<\/strong> and a <strong>powerful neck and shoulders<\/strong> for dismembering and carrying prey.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>tireless trotters with excellent sight, hearing, and smell<\/strong> for locating carrion, and they are proficient hunters as well.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>All hyenas are more or less <strong>nocturnal<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These animals usually <strong>live for about 12 years<\/strong>, but they can <strong>live up to 25 years<\/strong>. Brown hyenas, however, typically have shorter lives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation Status: <\/strong>According to IUCN, <strong>spotted hyenas have<\/strong> populations of <strong>least concern<\/strong>. However, <strong>brown and striped hyenas are classified as near threatened<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0What is a Carnivore?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A carnivore is an organism, in most cases an animal, that eats meat. A carnivorous animal that hunts other animals is called a predator; an animal that is hunted is called prey.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/science\/hyenas-inherit-power-from-moms-but-its-a-privilege-they-pay-dearly-for-study\/1643532\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Hyenas inherit power from moms, but it\u2019s a privilege they pay dearly for: Study<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyenas are doglike carnivores found in Asia and Africa and are noted for their scavenging habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}