Importance Of Adaptation Of Hyena

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One adaptation is hyenas have very good eye sight and good hearing that helps to find it's prey. Hyenas also make different sound with their voice that may sound like laughs,whoop,or yelling. This helps them keep in touch with each other.
A hyena is a predator to lizards,snakes,birds,and insects but they can sometimes eat wildebeest and antelopes. Lions some times attach hyenas but they mostly stay away and humans kill hyenas not usually for eating but for medicine and other things.
Hyenas are also mammals so that means they are

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