Reporting Date: 4th December 2011

Hyenas do not  get  along well with lions and cheetahs as they all feed on the same prey and therefore are competitors. It is for this reason that when they come across each other, there is tension and one party has to give way for the other. On this particular day, ranger Jaffery and his guests came across a lone cheetah that had killed a Thomson gazelle in the late afternoon in an open field. But out of nowhere, even before the cheetah recovered from the chase, an hyena came from the surrounding  bushes and chased him away from the meal before taking off with it into the bushes. He had gotten an easy meal which he did not work hard for. The cheetah could not defend the kill and simply ran away as their limbs are not adapted for fighting. Everybody thought this was very unfair but that is the rule of nature.

NB: * = Same animals seen by different rangers