Photo of the Day #778: Spotted hyena

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A spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.


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With so few representatives surviving to the present day, it's hard to imagine how diverse hyenas once were, or that they began 17 million years ago as small predators with cat-like retractable claws!