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Cowardly, scavengers, maniacal harbingers of witchcraft—the hyena image in the human mind is hardly flattering.
Thanks to the likes of Disney, ancient prejudices live on in the 21st Century. Keith Somerville. Laurence G. ISBN Through an extensive overview of scientific, historical and popular literature, Somerville uncovers the roots of the misconceptions around the three species of hyena—striped, spotted and brown—and makes a compelling case for the cause of their conservation. In folktales and myths, there monsters of the mind book a thread of genuine fear of an animal that killed stock, even killed and ate people, and which digs up graves and eats corpses. This provides a starting point for the imagery of the hyena, but with inaccuracies, superstition and outright falsehoods woven into the narratives. Over millennia this has created an image of hyenas that is common globally and taken up with gusto in films and the media, and even in wildlife documentaries.
Associations of hyenas with witchcraft and the occult are a common theme. The belief is that it is a witch that turns itself into a tokoloshe or that the tokoloshe is a familiar of the witch, which can ride on the back of a hyena. The Gusii people of Kenya also associate hyenas with witches operating at night and tell their children they must not leave monsters of the mind book huts at night as the witches and hyenas will catch and devour them.
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It must be said that hyenas, as Somerville notes at times, are not the only animals that have been linked to witchcraft. This reviewer has raised the possibility elsewhere that the ubiquity of witchcraft belief in Africa—a conservative social force—could stem from the intensity of human-wildlife conflict in the region and the fact that an animal attack is the one natural event that can resemble an intentional act of malice.
Hyena vocalizations are also associated, in human ears, with maniacal or evil laughter. Superb predators, hyenas are also highly adaptable opportunists which, like most carnivores, will scavenge when the prospect arises. This hardly bodes well for monsters of the mind book conservation. For example, much of the bok laid out in the first chapter could have been woven into the subsequent chapters.
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The estimates for populations in various countries need not have been repeated. The book would also have benefited from more on-the-ground color and reporting, which admittedly was not possible for most of last year because of the pandemic. Still, this stands as a definitive work on hyenas and the historical journey they have taken with humans during the Anthropocene.
It is an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in hyenas.]
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