brown hyena

American  

noun

1. a hyena, Hyaena brunnea, of southern Africa, having a blackish-gray coat: its dwindling population is now protected.

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Example Sentences

The brown hyena, the rarest of all hyena species, is primarily nocturnal and tends to live a solitary life.

From BBC

They have their own family, Hyaenidae, comprising four species: the spotted hyena, striped hyena, brown hyena, and the aardwolf, which isn’t a wolf but looks like one.  

From National Geographic

The brown hyena, found in South Africa from the Cape to Mozambique and Senegambia, has a more shaggy fur than the preceding species.

From Project Gutenberg

There is still another “brown hyena,” which differs altogether from this one, and is an inhabitant of the Great Desert.

From Project Gutenberg