Brown hyaena

Brown hyaena
Temporal range: Pliocene – Recent
At the Gemsbok National Park, South Africa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Hyaenidae
Genus: Hyaena
Species:
H. brunnea
Binomial name
Hyaena brunnea
Thunberg, 1820
Geographic range
Synonyms
  • Parahyena brunnea (Thunberg, 1820)

The brown hyaena (Hyaena brunnea), also called strandwolf, is a species of hyaena. It is found in Namibia, Botswana, western and southern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and South Africa.

It is the rarest species of hyaena. The largest remaining brown hyaena population is in the southern Kalahari Desert and coastal areas in Southwest Africa.

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.

References

  1. 1 2 Wiesel, I. (2015). "Parahyaena brunnea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T10276A82344448.
  2. ↑ Shorter Oxford English dictionary. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. 2007. p. 3804. ISBN 978-0199206872.
  3. ↑ 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. PMC 4728035. PMID 26819838.
  4. ↑ Chapter 4: Rich Man's Table from David MacDonald’s The Velvet Claw BBC books, 1992
  5. ↑ Holekamp, Kay. "Home". IUCN Hyaena Specialist Group. IUCN. Archived from the original on 2007-12-24.