| Brown hyaena Temporal range: Pliocene – Recent | |
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| At the Gemsbok National Park, South Africa | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Hyaenidae |
| Genus: | Hyaena |
| Species: | H.brunnea |
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| Hyaena brunnea Thunberg, 1820 | |
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The brown hyaena (Hyaena brunnea), also called strandwolf,[2] is a species of hyaena. It is found in Namibia, Botswana, western and southern Zimbabwe,[3] southern Mozambique and South Africa.
It is the rarest species of hyaena.[4] The largest remaining brown hyaena population is in the southern Kalahari Desert and coastal areas in Southwest Africa.[5]
The total population of brown hayaena is between 4,000 and 10,000 (IUCN). Its conservation status is 'near threatened' in the IUCN Red List.[1]
References
[change | change source]- 1 2 Wiesel, I. (2015). "Parahyaena brunnea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T10276A82344448.
- ↑ Shorter Oxford English dictionary. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 2007. p.3804. ISBN978-0199206872.
- ↑ Williams, Samual T.; Williams, Kathryn S.; Joubert, Christoffel J.; Hill, Russell A. (14 January 2016). "The impact of land reform on the status of large carnivores in Zimbabwe". PeerJ. 4 e1537. doi:10.7717/peerj.1537. PMC4728035. PMID26819838.
- ↑ Chapter 4: Rich Man's Table from David MacDonald’s The Velvet Claw BBC books, 1992
- ↑ Holekamp, Kay. "Home". IUCN Hyaena Specialist Group. IUCN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-24.