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Quotes About Hyenas

Wildlife television programmes and their depiction of the African wilds and the creatures that inhabit them tend to give the false impression that elephants are friendly creatures (while they are indeed noble beasts, they are at best indifferent to our presence), and that you can cuddle lions and make pets of hyaenas.
~ James Clarke
As he passed through the winding corridors and the subterranean apartments, Tarzan saw nothing of the hyenas. They will return, he said to himself. In the crater between the towering walls Bukawai, cold with terror, trembled, trembled as with ague. They will return! he cried, his voice rising to a fright-filled shriek. And they did.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Discovery Channel had a fascinating show on the mating habits of hyenas. They said that the male hyena often will get angry at the female hyena while they are having sex. It doesn't help that the female hyena is laughing at you all the time.
~ Jay Leno
Remember always that it has been seen that in the community of hyenas,the female is usually the team leader and dominates over males.
~ Anuj Somany
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Hyenas 'appear to violate the rules of mammalian biology,' Holekamp tells me. 'Studying the oddballs can teach you about the basics,' she explains. 'They allow us to gain insight into what the rules actually are.' And by showing us an alternative way to sociality and intelligence, they help us better understand our own beloved pets, and perhaps even ourselves.
~ Sy Montgomery
Well, then," said Lilith, "by all means, show her around. Expose her to the beauty of Mother Earth." A chill went down Arisha's back. She could swear she saw a split tongue in Lilith's mouth. Almost like the garter snakes she had played with in the forest. Maybe it was the mushrooms. She saw three tame looking hyenas sitting off a short distance from Lilith and her children, watching them like loyal dogs—or guardians.
~ Brian Godawa
Singing hyenas, pounding African rhythms, and lion cub romance kept me from thinking of the murders for hours.
~ Kathy Reichs
In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with second-hand blood for the hyenas to snuffle up, but they come in useful enough that you want to stay on their good side.
~ Tana French
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes
~ Dan Brown
If you refuse to entertain a baby cousin, the baby cousin may get bored and entertain itself by wandering off and falling down a well. If you refuse to entertain a pack of hyenas, they may become restless and entertain themselves by devouring you.
~ Lemony Snicket
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes
~ Dan Brown
Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her
~ Dan Brown
proves to be a devastating hunter. Hyenas attack
~ Yann Martel
Socrates roamed and surrounded by the oppositions in Athens, like a lion that's surrounded by hyenas in the forest.
~ Unknown
The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
~ Isaiah 34:14