striped hyena
Americannoun
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According to this method, the octopus, with about 500 million neurons, ranks at about the level of a raccoon or a striped hyena.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2018
The program has plenty of “wild”: eagles practicing team hunting; a wolf pack tussling with a striped hyena in the night; rare images of an Arabian leopard.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2013
We went by the bald eagle, the white-tailed deer, the tahr goats, the lions, and the striped hyena.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
The striped hyena, although the best known, is in my opinion the least interesting of his kind.
From The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family by Reid, Mayne
This is also a striped hyena, and nearly all naturalists have set him down as of the same species with the Hyena vulgaris.
From The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family by Reid, Mayne
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