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
A striped hyena, seemingly in lifelong terror of his own shadow, turned up by magic—or perhaps he heard the snap of the trap.
From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry
This species, though smaller than the striped hyena, is of a fiercer nature and more dangerous.
From The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
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