Jen Guyton / A spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) chases a flock of white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) away from an elephant carcass (Loxodonta africana), Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. The hyenas are tinted a reddish...

Jen Guyton / White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) and spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) pick at the drying and deflated skin of an elephant carcass (Loxodonta africana), Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. The hyenas are ti...

Jen Guyton / White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) and spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) squabble over the drying and deflated skin of an elephant carcass (Loxodonta africana), Laikipia Plateau, Kenya. The hyenas...

Ann & Steve Toon / Brown hyaena (Hyaena brunnea) running, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa, January.

Jen Guyton / Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) stops to look while white-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) and Rüppell's vultures (Gyps rueppelli) pick at the final remains of an elephant carcass (Loxodonta africana)...

Sergey Gorshkov / Brown hyaena (Hyaena brunnea) resting, Londolozi Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sands Game Reserve, South Africa.

Sergey Gorshkov / Brown hyaena (Hyaena brunnea) with aggressive Leopard (panthera pardus)

Sergey Gorshkov / Aggressive Leopard (Panthera pardus) mother baring teeth to protect young from Brown hyaena

Will Burrard-Lucas / Brown hyena (Hyaena brunnea) chewing on leg bone Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana. January

Will Burrard-Lucas / Brown hyena (Hyaena brunnea) sat in the grass, front view portrait. Makgadikgadi Pans, Botswana. January

Paul D Stewart / Lupus Marina - a sea wolf - Folio Copper Plate, later hand coloured. Published 1657-65 Amsterdam, for Historiae Naturalis by John Jonston. Illustrated by Caspar and Matthias Merian. These creatures ar...

Ann & Steve Toon / Brown hyena (Hyaena brunnea) profile at waterhole, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa