Question

Hyena, perhaps the most maligned and misunderstood of all Africa's animals for their unfair reputation of being savage scavengers, but one of my favorites, skulked in the alleys of the dark looking for dinner. YOOUP YOOUP, YOOOOUP they called, marking their territory with their manic cackles. Huge dog like footprints the next day sometimes showed that they had come in for a closer look at us. We used the spotlight intermittently to track this seething theatre, only because leaving it on for too long lured swarms of bugs that attacked us in squadrons. It's bad bush practice to keep a light on continuously as light attracts insects, insects attract frogs, and frogs attract snakes. Our only permanent illumination was the campfire. One morning we woke to find leopard droppings near the Land Rover. The local male had marked his territory right where we were sleeping, delivering a firm feline message this was also his space. 1) Hyena skulked in the dark looking for their dinner and marking their territory with manic cackles and footprints the next day sometimes showed that they had come in for a closer look at us. We used the spotlight intermittently to trach this theater because ______________________, insects attract frogs and frogs attract snakes. One morning we found leopard droppings near the Land Rover, which was a message from the ________________________: this was also his space.

Answer 1

Hyena skulked in the dark looking for their dinner and marking their territory with manic cackles, and footprints the next day sometimes showed that they had come in for a closer look at us. We used the spotlight intermittently to track this theater because keeping the light on continuously lured swarms of bugs that attacked us in squadrons; insects attract frogs, and frogs attract snakes. One morning we found leopard droppings near the Land Rover, which was a message from the local male leopard: this was also his space.