just a question , why is the hiena not a trophy, after watching NatG and others the hiena is the only preadtor of Lions, Cape Buff an Lep.. just a question. Neat animal.

I think it is because they are ugly.

I'd shoot a hyena in a heartbeat.  As a matter of fact, when I was in SA last August my guide ran over one on accident. It was dark and tried crossing the road at the wrong time. It was actually a brown hyena, not a spotted. We turned around and threw it in the back of the truck, took some pics at camp, and the guide planned on getting it mounted.

They are protected though. You need loads of licenses and special permits to shoot. I speak under correction but I think their cites status might just make it difficult to export trophies anyways?

Either way they're probably just to easy to hunt. Where you do get them, they'll come in to feed at ANY piece of rotten meat. No "fair chase" thus no real hunt?

Thanks johan,i guess i can see that about fair chase.

Brown hyena's are CITES listed species which will require extra permits.

Spotteds don't have any import restrictions. They would be a great bow trophy - browns are pretty rare, and not easy to get (they do eat carrion, but are primarily insect eaters), spotteds can be called, which would be a blast.

When we were hunting buffalo in Zimbabwe, 1998,
our PH, old time hunter Roy Vincent, told us they were one of the most difficult animals to take.  They had a Frenchman in our camp who wanted one, and they were putting out baits for them.  Roy said it usually took a few days before they would approach anything that had human scent around.  I believe they finally got one, but I never saw it.  I never saw a live one either, so I'm just repeating what we were told.

Murray

Brown hyena eat almost anything but their strong jaw makes bones and hides just fine. The bite pressure is greater than the spotted or most other mammals and they can utilise the marrow from the heaveist shin bones of prey animals along with the hardest dried hides. Depending where they occur their diet will vary and includes ostrich eggs which they are able to grasp and break in their wide gape. The brown hyena are generally and nocturnal and hunt/scavenge alone. There is a good population in the Pilanesberg amongst others. We saw them quite regularly on night drives. Insects and the insect specialist is the striped hyena who eats lots of termites and other insects, their teeth are adapted to termites and cannot process flesh. Their canines are defensive only. Striped hyena are also known as the strandjut and scavange along beaches and eat crabs and other washed out food items. seabird eggs and young are fair game to them. They are harmless and useful animals to have on a farm.
chrisg