The Zoochat Photographic Guide to Bears, Pinnipeds and Hyenas.

HYAENINAE


This lineage comprises 3 species within two genera:

Spotted Hyena Crocuta crocuta

Brown Hyena Hyaena brunnea
Striped Hyena Hyaena hyaena

 

Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

The range of this species extends across much of sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal in the west to Sudan in the east, and south to Namibia, Botswana and northern South Africa; within this area the species is absent only from the Congo River Basin and the southern coastline of West Africa.

Monotypic.

Photo by @lintworm

 

Brown Hyena (Hyaena brunnea)

The range of this species extends across southern Africa, from Namibia in the west to Zimbabwe in the east, and south into central South Africa.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Jana

 

Striped Hyena (Hyaena hyaena)

The range of this species extends across much of north and east Africa, into the Arabian Peninsula, Middle East and Indian subcontinent.

Five subspecies are recognised:

H. h. barbara
H. h. dubbah - photo by @TeaLovingDave



H. h. hyaena - photo by @fofo



H. h. sultana - photo by @vogelcommando



H. h. syriaca - photo by @Hix

 

PROTELINAE


This lineage comprises a single species:

Aardwolf (Proteles cristata)

The range of this species comprises a pair of disjunct populations in south and east Africa; the former of these extends from southern Angola and Zambia, through Namibia and Botswana to South Africa. The latter extends from the extreme southeast of Egypt in the north, through Ethiopia and Somalia as far south as central Tanzania.

Two subspecies are recognised:

P. c. cristata - photo by @ro6ca66



P. c. septentrionalis - photo by @ro6ca66

 

Oh, I have more than just an idea; the next thread is going to be Prosimians, which should complement the ongoing thread @Chlidonias is writing based around the Haplorhini nicely.

 

No, we've already been discussing where these threads will go in the future and he suggested I deal with prosimians - and potentially new world monkeys - as he doesn't have much interest in these groups

The bonus of splitting groups at varying levels - or indeed dealing with multiple groups at once - is that it allows us to produce nice meaty threads but not overload any given thread, nor have threads which don't even last a page. For instance, were we to stick to Order-level threads we would theoretically have a Pholidota thread which was over before it even started, and a Rodentia one which is even longer than the Nonsense Thread

In any case, we do plan an index thread which will group all the threads together

 

We do, but we also only have eight species for the thread to contain even if there are photographs of three taxa in the gallery.

 

A photograph of Bearded Seal taken by @alexkant has been added to the relevant portion of the thread.

 

Might be too poor for the purposes of this thread - although as a unique shot it definitely should remain in the gallery!