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Clean up patrol. A spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) finds and feeds on a hippo carcass on the edge of Lake Magadi, Tanzania.
The hyena is a clever and opportunistic scavenger. In fact, did you know that the spotted hyena is capable of outsmarting a chimpanzee in laboratory problem-solving tests?
I guess these creatures just need a better PR representative.
This bad-tempered fella would have preferred to dine alone on the Serengeti. Unfortunately, he couldn't drive everybody off at the same time. As soon has he chased off one friend, another moved in for a bite.
We watched, amused, as this greedy game of "get your head out of my cape buffalo" went on and on.
Rüppell's Vulture (Gyps rueppelli) is an efficient garbage collector of East Africa. While preferring fresh kills, this scavenger will fuss over rotting ones too.
Yuck.
