First confirmed record of infanticide for wild brown hyena
Our new paper regarding the first confirmed record of infanticide in brown hyaena is out now in African Journal of Ecology. Monitoring the natal den belonging to ‘OHB12’ and her two young cubs with a live feed camera, we were able to capture the moment another brown hyaena approached the burrow in which the cubs were resting in and kill them. The adult then took one dead cub away, presumably to eat. This is the first time such a behaviour has been observed in wild brown hyaena.
African Journal of Ecology