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Lions track rival hyenas in the wild rather than the other way round, reveals study

Lionesses and cubs from one of the prides scientists observed in the study at Etosha National Park. (Dr. Nancy Barker via SWNS)

By Stephen Beech

Lions track rival hyenas in the wild — rather than the other way round, reveals new research.

Lions track rival hyenas in the wild rather than the other way round, reveals study

Dr. Nancy Barker with an immobilized adult male lion from a pride in the Chobe-Linyanti floodplains. Barker took morphological measurements, identification photographs, and blood, tissue and faecal samples before fitting each collar. (Dr. Nancy Barker via SWNS)

Lions track rival hyenas in the wild rather than the other way round, reveals study

A young spotted hyena at Etosha National Park scopes Barker out. At the time, Dr. Nancy Barker was setting up a bait station to immobilize and collar the matriarch of the hyena clan. (Dr. Nancy Barker via SWNS)

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