These tender moments shared by a Spotted Hyena female and her two small cubs, seen on a recent weekend visit to the Mopani region of the Kruger National Park, is another one of the reasons why we keep going back to the Park as often as we can. It also made the four dads in the car really miss their own “cubs” back home…
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
Spotted Hyena female and two young cubs
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Lovely shots 😊
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Thank you so much!
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Great shots.
Hyenas are fun-loving creatures. Like the one we met in Kruger that came right up to the car and looked cute so as to persuade an occupant to pat him. That, no doubt, would have provided an arm for lunch. (He had the wrong sort of disarming reputation!)
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And always such a pity when one has to cut short a visit to Kruger because a member of your party shared their arm with a hungry hyena… 😀
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Would it come to that? Dealing with these little emergencies is what Park Rangers are for.
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A quick stitch or 700 should do the trick! 😀
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Weet jy, de Wet, nes die mens, het almal en alles iemand nodig.
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Dit is die reine waarheid, Una!
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Great photos, hyaenas and cubs are good photographic subjects, and I have a few photos of my own of a mother hyaena and her cubs emerging from drain culverts at the side of the long road to Olifants camp and then playing with them at the roadside or lying down in the sun and relaxing with them. Wonderful memories of my visits to KNP.
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We’ve also seen the den at the crossroads of the H1-4 and S39-S89 many years ago and still look for the clan everytime we pass that spot!
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Cute!
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Thank you, Pradnya!
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Thank you for sharing these photos. Hyenas do not seem to have many friends, but I think they are beautiful. In a scary sought of way.
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We’re with you there 100%. Hyenas have always had an undeserved bad wrap.
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Those are great photos! Stunning!
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Thank you very much, Jan!
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Very good pictures!😊 Hyenas is the animals amazons, it’s the females who rules. They are not so bad as many say, they hunt and is a very good predators who even can fight with lions.
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We love seeinf hyenas, John, for exactly that reason. They are very much misunderstood and actually are fascinating, intelligent, calculated creatures.
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Niks is mooier as ‘n dapper klein hiënatjie nie! Fantastiese foto’s, Dries!
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Hulle is regtig die oulikste ou goedjies! Dankie vir die gawe woorde, Dina
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Cutest photos I’ve ever seen of hyenas!
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That’s high praise, thank you so much!!!
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