From Animate Creation by J G. Wood, 1898.

From Animate Creation by J G. Wood, 1898.

"Alone on an island with six hyenas."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.

From Sophocles the Hyena by Jim Moran and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. 

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the (spotted, not striped) hyena this drawing is based upon. From Who's Who In the Zoo, 1937.

From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R Neill, 1906.

From The Rich Man and the Singer, Folktales From Ethiopia, illustrated by Christine Price.

From The Instructor, 1968.

From Meat-Eaters by Lucy Guernsey, 1858.

From The Rich Man and the Singer, Folktales From Ethiopia, illustrated by Christine Price.

From The Hundred Best Animals by Lilian Gask, 1914.

From Sophocles the Hyena by Jim Moran and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.

A hyena watches a jackal eating a cloud.  From The Alo Man, Stories of the Congo by Mara Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rollin Crampton, 1921.

From Hyenas Laughed At Me, and Now I Know Why, 2003.

From Sophocles the Hyena by Jim Moran and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.

From Animate Creation by J G. Wood, 1898.

All but the hyena were recaptured after the wreck of a circus train.  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.

From Kutnar, Son of Pic, written and illustrated by George Langford, 1921.

The hyena is traditionally famed for being able to change its sex, and the stone in its eye gives humans the gift of prophecy.  The offspring of a dog and a cat, it never rode on Noah's ark but rather came into being after the Deluge.  From Symbolism Of Animals and Birds Represented in English Architecture by Arthur Collins, 1931.

From Animate Creation by J G. Wood, 1898 and All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 1900.