The brown hyenas of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast are known to hunt Cape fur seals in this manner.
In two of Namibia’s official languages (German and Afrikaans), the name for this animal is Strandwolf. It literally means “beach wolf.”
Sir David Attenborough also makes a mistake in this piece.
Did you catch it?
It’s the first time I ever caught in saying something wrong about an animal.
I had assumed the hyena was not part of the dog family.
That’s Attenborough’s error.
Sir Richard doesn’t actually say that hyenas are dogs, but, taking that remark in context, the inference that could be drawn is that they are. And, of course, they are not.
But while I woudn’t give him a passing grade on that one remark, I wouldn’t count it as a zero.
It’s David Attenborough. Richard is now Lord.
The segment comes from The Life of Mammals.
And the hyenas begin a whole section on dogs– wolves, jackals, etc.
hmmmm. Not really hunting. More like cherry picking. ;-)