Dietary preference of striped hyena in the anthropogenic landscape of Rajasthan, India

Panda, Debashish; Sharma, Shantanu; Mohanty, S. R.; Kumar, Alok; Suryan, Tanuj; Shukla, Mukesh; Pandey, Puneet; Lee, Hang; Singh, Randeep

doi:10.1016/j.chnaes.2023.03.002

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“…The fact that no other studies have definitively reported—except for the one unpublished observation [ 25 ]—the relatively high occurrence of alloparenting by helpers in striped hyenas may be because it is, in general, a rare phenomenon across the species range. However, one must also take into account that the number of studies on breeding in striped hyenas is negligible to non-existent; most studies address the ecology—that is, food/prey [ 48 , 49 , 50 ], den locations [ 51 ], physiology [ 52 ], distribution and densities [ 53 , 54 ], threats and conservation [ 55 , 56 ], social interactions [ 45 , 57 ], population trends [ 26 ], human-hyena conflict [ 58 ], etc.…”

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Alloparenting by Helpers in Striped Hyena (Hyaena hyaena)

Hadad

Balaban²,

Yosef

2023

Animals

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In an ongoing study of the striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena), we observed that in the nine different females, alloparenting by the daughters of a previous litter was not uncommon and occurred on fifteen different occasions, twice with two helpers. Alloparenting persisted from when the cubs are approximately a month old until they reach the age when they go out foraging with their mothers at 10–12 months. Helpers perform most maternal duties, except suckling, even in the mother’s presence. Helpers accrued indirect fitness and practiced parenting before reaching sexual maturity. Future studies must study the reproductive biology of the striped hyena in the wild throughout its geographic range to elucidate additional breeding properties that have not yet been identified. The continued persecution of striped hyenas and the lack of information about their breeding rituals and capabilities in the wild mean that this study of their different reproduction strategies, focusing on surrogate mothers, is of great conservation importance. The fact that we have found cooperative breeding in this solitary species suggests that there is much more to uncover of the enigmatic striped hyena in the wild.

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