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Cave Hyena Sculpture in the Mittleres Lonetal

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Cave Hyena Sculpture in the Mittleres Lonetal

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Cave Hyena Sculpture in the Mittleres Lonetal

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    January 3, 2024

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    Subspecies of the spotted hyena that lived in Europe until the Late Pleistocene.
    Cave hyenas were not true cave dwellers, as the name might suggest. They only visited the caves as shelter.
    In caves that were regularly visited by cave hyenas, in addition to the remains of humans and cave bears, which also often used caves as shelter, one finds numerous Ice Age animals that were brought here as food.
    Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6hlenhy%C3%A4ne
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    August 18, 2024

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    The cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) often used caves as its home, the proverbial "hyena cave" or hyena nest. It is also called the Ice Age spotted hyena because it …
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    January 18, 2026

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    Remembering one of the most important hunters of the Ice Age, who shared his habitat with humans and cave bears.
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