Amazing story of Hyenas, who used to make condolence visit when a person dies in the village

  • This is one of the unbelievable stories, most of us might think as a fairy tale or some piece of fictional story.
  • The other amazing habit of those hyenas is that when a domestic animal, which is owned by one of the villagers, dies, they did not dare to have a single bite of it while they stand around the dead animal, until the owner give them permission to eat.

This is one of the unbelievable stories, most of us might think as a fairy tale or some piece of fictional story. In Ethiopia it is not too surprise to see a group of hyenas eating a piece of meat from someone’s hand, especially in the historic city of Harar. Any one who have a chance to visit Harar, he/she will watch the group of hyenas come out from their cave to the city at the time the time changes to be night, in order to have some food, and mostly they eat their supper from the hand of the man who used to fed them, sometimes from the hand and mouth of tourists(if they are fearless!), this tradition has been practices for decades.

However, todays story is about a group of hyenas who have special emotional and traditional attachment far more than the group of hyenas in Harar we have talked earlier. This story is happening in Guragie zone of the southern Nations Nationalities and People Regional state, and those herd of hyenas used to walk to the village at night for condolence visit, when someone died in the village, they gathered Infront of the house, in which the lose is occurred, and cried louder for minutes before they left to their bush for searching.

The other amazing habit of those hyenas is that when a domestic animal, which is owned by one of the villagers, dies, they did not dare to have a single bite of it while they stand around the dead animal, until the owner give them permission to eat.

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