Hyenas of Harar #2, originally uploaded by sweetmarias.
The pack in Harar has been fed for 50 years by the Hyena Man (2 generations of Hyena Men, to be correct). They also come into town through “Hyena Hole”, a gap in the wall surrounding the Jogol, the old town. While they are dangerous and wild, they are pack animals, and highly adaptable. So the feeding of them seems particularly tame. But there are hyena attacks on children, as you will see when I photographed a 10 year old victim who survived (my full pictorial coming soon.) They will take young children and simply disappear to the mountains. This happened 2 weeks before in the region of Hararghe where I went to meet the small farmers.
