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Humans and Hyenas - Monster or Misunderstood (Hardcover)
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Humans and Hyenas - Monster or Misunderstood (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
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Humans and Hyenas examines the origins and development of the
relationship between the two to present an accurate and realistic
picture of the hyena and its interactions with people. The hyena is
one of the most maligned, misrepresented and defamed mammals. It is
still, despite decades of research-led knowledge, seen as a
skulking, cowardly scavenger rather than a successful hunter with
complex family and communal systems. Hyenas are portrayed as
sex-shifting deviants, grave robbers and attackers of children in
everything from African folk tales through Greek and Roman accounts
of animal life, to Disney's The Lion King depicting hyenas with a
lack of respect and disgust, despite the reality of their behaviour
and social structures. Combining the personal, in-depth mining of
scientific papers about the three main species and historical
accounts, Keith Somerville delves into our relationship with hyenas
from the earliest records from millennia ago, through the accounts
by colonisers, to contemporary coexistence, where hyenas and humans
are forced into ever closer proximity due to shrinking habitats and
loss of prey. Are hyenas fated to retain their bad image or can
their amazing ability to adapt to humans more successfully than
lions and other predators lead to a shift in perspective? This book
will be of great interest to students and scholars in the
environmental sciences, conservation biology, and wildlife and
conservation issues.
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