Schleich: Hyena

Spotted hyenas might not be the most beautiful predators in the Africansavannah, but they are certainly the most successful. They live in clans of upto 80 animals and hunt at dawn and at dusk.

Fun Fact: Hyenas can even bite through bones and digest them.

On the first glance, spotted hyenas look like oversise dogs. Striking aretheir long necks, powerful skull, brown spots on a yellowish-brown coat and thesloping topline. This is why hyenas always look as if they ducked. Theirappearance helped these predators to their bad reputation. To human observers,they often seem threatening and insidious. Indeed spotted hyenas are the mostsuccessful hunters of the African savannah. At dusk they prey on largerungulates, but they also do not despise small animals, such as insects orreptiles. Sometimes they also take the prey of other predators, such as lions orleopards. Hyenas eat their prey completely, because they can even digest theirbones. Only hairs are regurgitated again. Hyenas live in packs of up to80 animals, always headed by a dominant female.

Part of the Schleich World of Nature → Wild Life
Ages 3+

Schleich products are developed with the assistance of parents, teachersand children and are therefore especially designed for children’s hands. Thedesign of Schleich products is as realistic and naturalistic as possible. Thisenables children to experience the large variety of nature – from domesticanimals on a farm to wild animals in the jungle.