Hyenas seen sharing their dens with porcupines and warthogs
Noticed hyenas have been seen with unlikely bedfellows
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Porcupines and warthogs are sometimes prey for noticed hyenas, however the three species have now been noticed bedding down collectively in the identical dens in northern Kenya.
Marc Dupuis-Désormeaux at York College in Toronto and his colleagues have been monitoring noticed hyena (Crocuta crocuta) dens as a part of a wider carnivore examine within the Lewa wildlife conservancy once they stumbled upon proof of den sharing between predator and prey, the primary time such a phenomenon has been famous in Africa.
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