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The world's wonders right at your sight. Visit Uganda with White Nile Safaris
17/02/2018

The world's wonders right at your sight. Visit Uganda with White Nile Safaris

There is only one place to experience an astonishing sunrise. Visit Uganda with White Nile Safaris
22/12/2017

There is only one place to experience an astonishing sunrise. Visit Uganda with White Nile Safaris

Mount Elgon National Park
20/09/2017

Mount Elgon National Park

Oooooh the adventures you will share with the baboons in the wild.
05/09/2017

Oooooh the adventures you will share with the baboons in the wild.

The Jackson's Heartebeast
05/09/2017

The Jackson's Heartebeast

Travel with us as we explore the adventures of Queen Elizabeth National Park
28/08/2017

Travel with us as we explore the adventures of Queen Elizabeth National Park

Born to raft at the nile. Book your full or half day or a six days rafting trip from Jinja to Murchison. All full of ama...
16/06/2017

Born to raft at the nile. Book your full or half day or a six days rafting trip from Jinja to Murchison. All full of amazing adventures.
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Be bold and adventure Book your trip with White Nile Safaris this summer at whitenilesafaris@gmail.com or call +2567062...
13/06/2017

Be bold and adventure

Book your trip with White Nile Safaris this summer at [email protected] or call +256706264909

Mountain gorilla adventures start with you.contact us at +256706264909 or whitenilesafaris@gmail.com
29/05/2017

Mountain gorilla adventures start with you.

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THE HYENAHyenas or hyaenas are any feliform carnivoran mammals of the family Hyaenidae. With only four extant species, i...
05/05/2017

THE HYENA

Hyenas or hyaenas are any feliform carnivoran mammals of the family Hyaenidae. With only four extant species, it is the fifth-smallest biological family in the Carnivora, and one of the smallest in the class Mammalia. Despite their low diversity, hyenas are unique and vital components of most African ecosystems.
Although phylogenetically they are closer to felines and viverrids, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically similar to canines in several aspects; both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal, cursorial hunters that catch prey with their teeth rather than claws. Both eat food quickly and may store it, and their calloused feet with large, blunt, nonretractable nails are adapted for running and making sharp turns. However, the hyenas' grooming, scent marking, defecating habits, mating, and parental behaviour are consistent with the behaviour of other feliforms.

Spotted hyenas may kill as many as 95% of the animals they eat, while striped hyenas are largely scavengers.Generally, hyenas are known to drive off larger predators, like lions, from their kills, despite having a reputation in popular culture for being cowardly. Hyenas are primarily nocturnal animals, but sometimes venture from their lairs in the early-morning hours. With the exception of the highly social spotted hyena, hyenas are generally not gregarious animals, though they may live in family groups and congregate at kills.

Hyenas feature prominently in the folklore and mythology of human cultures with which they are sympatric. Hyenas are commonly viewed as frightening and worthy of contempt, and are associated with witchcraft, because their body parts are used as ingredients in traditional medicine. In some cultures, hyenas are thought to influence people’s spirits, rob graves, and steal livestock and children.

By 10–12 million years ago, the hyena family had split into two distinct groups: dog-like hyenas and bone-crushing hyenas. The arrival of the ancestral bone-crushing hyenas coincided with the decline of the similarly built but unrelated family Percrocutidae. The bone-crushing hyenas survived the changes in climate and the arrival of canids, which wiped out the dog-like hyenas.

Ancestral spotted hyenas probably developed social behaviours in response to increased pressure from rivals on carcasses, thus forcing them to operate in teams. Spotted hyenas evolved sharp carnassials behind their crushing premolars, therefore they did not need to wait for their prey to die, as is the case for brown and striped hyenas, and thus became pack hunters as well as scavengers. They began forming increasingly larger territories, necessitated by the fact that their prey was often migratory, and long chases in a small territory would have caused them to encroach into another clan's turf.

In Uganda hyenas can be found in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Murchsion Falls National Park, Kidepo Valley National Park and some wildlife reserves. Similary hyenas can be found in most of the protected areas of East Africa like the Serengeti, Masai Mara, Tsavo,Amboseli,Aberdare and many others.

How much do you know about hyenas?
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Who is your partner in crime when it comesto travel. Book a trip now as an individual, family, group with White Nile Saf...
28/04/2017

Who is your partner in crime when it comesto travel.
Book a trip now as an individual, family, group with White Nile Safaris.
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Beach life is really amazing on the shore of Lake Victoria in Entebbe. Book now with white Nile Safaris and enjoy the ad...
21/04/2017

Beach life is really amazing on the shore of Lake Victoria in Entebbe.
Book now with white Nile Safaris and enjoy the adventures of Uganda.
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