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He stuck for the five goats and the sleeping mat for a matter of half an hour, while the hyenas sniffed and growled and laughed hideously.
This time Momaya recognized it for what it was, the strange cry of a hyena. No more did she shudder, but she held her spear ready and called aloud to Bukawai to come out.
Instead of Bukawai came the repulsive head of a hyena. Momaya poked at it with her spear, and the ugly, sullen brute drew back with an angry growl.
"Ay ban as gude as dead already; but"--he hesitated--"Ay hate to think of the hyenas. Von't you finish up this job?"
With this new protector Iwanich wandered on through the forest, and though he came upon a great many more wolves, hyenas, leopards, and other wild beasts, they always kept at a respectful distance when they saw what sort of an escort the Prince had with him.
Dango might have charged sooner but for the savage growls of the ape-man--growls which, coming from human lips, raised a question and a fear in the hyena's heart.
When he had withdrawn the shaft from the hyena Tarzan shouldered both carcasses and continued on toward the gulch.
He abused the hyena, and then went off alone through the trees.
"Now where is the hyena who will try a new burrow?" cried Umslopogaas.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday urged the people and party faithful to block the "hyenas" involved in killings, including the August 15 massacre, off power forever.
Donkey owners in Lamu whose animals were killed or injured by hyenas want the government, through the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, to compensate them.The donkey owners, mostly from Matondoni, Kipungani, Tchundwa, Mokowe and Lamu Island, which are the worst affected areas, said many of them have been rendered jobless after their donkeys were killed by the scavengers.
Budalang'i residents have appealed to the KWS to drive away hyenas that have been killing their livestock.
The new 'live-action' remake ofThe Lion Kingis going make some changes, according to directorJon Favreau, and one of those major changes is the hyenas.
Despite their staggering victory, President Duterte advised his children to get out of politics, citing 'paid hacks' and 'hyenas' in the media that will spread lies against them.