{"id":21315,"date":"2025-01-31T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21315"},"modified":"2025-01-31T19:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:29:19","slug":"a-spotted-hyena-turns-up-in-egypt-after-a-5000-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21315","title":{"rendered":"A Spotted Hyena Turns Up in Egypt After a 5,000 Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When a scientist received a video of a spotted hyena in the southern part of his country, he thought someone was playing a trick on him.<\/p>\n

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The animal killed two goats belonging to residents of Wadi Yahmib, a village within the sparsely populated Elba Protected Area of Egypt. To protect their livestock, the villagers chased down the carnivore in a pickup truck and killed it.<\/p>\n

When Abdullah Nagy, a zoologist at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, received a video of the hunt from a colleague who was in the region, he thought he was being pranked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was asking, \u2018Where are you actually? Because that species doesn\u2019t exist in our country,\u2019\u201d Dr. Nagy said. \u201c\u2018Are you sure that you didn\u2019t cross into Sudan or something?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional photos offered persuasive proof: A spotted hyena had crossed into Egypt, about 300 miles north of the nearest known population of the animals in Sudan. The observation of the hyena is the first record of the oft-misunderstood mammal in Egypt<\/a> in 5,000 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Two other hyena species \u2014 the striped hyena and the aardwolf \u2014 can be found in Egypt. But spotted hyenas went extinct in the country millenniums ago<\/a> as the regional climate became dryer and more arid. Warthogs and zebras also disappeared from Egypt at this time.<\/p>\n

Dr. Nagy, Said El-Kholy and two other colleagues published details of the encounter in the journal Mammalia this month.<\/p>\n

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When a scientist received a video of a spotted hyena in the southern part of his country, he thought someone was playing a trick on him.The animal killed two goats belonging to residents of Wadi Yahmib, a village within the sparsely populated Elba Protected Area of Egypt. To protect their livestock, the villagers chased down the carnivore in a pickup truck and killed it.When Abdullah Nagy, a zoologist at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, received a video of the hunt from a colleague who was in the region, he thought he was being pranked.\u201cI was asking, \u2018Where are you actually? Because that species doesn\u2019t exist in our country,\u2019\u201d Dr. Nagy said. \u201c\u2018Are you sure that you didn\u2019t cross into Sudan or something?\u2019\u201dAdditional photos offered persuasive proof: A spotted hyena had crossed into Egypt, about 300 miles north of the nearest known population of the animals in Sudan. The observation of the hyena is the first record of the oft-misunderstood mammal in Egypt in 5,000 years.Two other hyena species \u2014 the striped hyena and the aardwolf \u2014 can be found in Egypt. But spotted hyenas went extinct in the country millenniums ago as the regional climate became dryer and more arid. Warthogs and zebras also disappeared from Egypt at this time.Dr. Nagy, Said El-Kholy and two other colleagues published details of the encounter in the journal Mammalia this month.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21317,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21318,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions\/21318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}