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Hyenas or Hyaenas (from Greek "ὕαινα" - hýaina) are the animals of the family Hyaenidae ( /hɪˈɛnɨdɛ/) of suborder feliforms of the Carnivora. It is the fourth smallest biological family in the Carnivora (consisting of four species), and one of the smallest in the mammalia. Despite their low diversity, hyenas are unique and vital components to most African and some Asian ecosystems.
Although phylogenetically close to felines and viverrids, hyenas are behaviourally and morphologically similar to canines in several aspects (see Convergent evolution); both hyenas and canines are non-arboreal, cursorial hunters that catch prey with their teeth rather than claws. Both eat food quickly and may store it, and their calloused feet with large, blunt, non-retractable nails are adapted for running and making sharp turns. However, the hyenas' grooming, scent marking, defecating habits, mating and parental behaviour are consistent with the behaviour of other feliforms. Although long reputed to be cowardly scavengers, hyenas, especially spotted hyenas, kill as much as 95% of the food they eat, and have been known to drive off leopards or lionesses from their kills. Hyenas are primarily nocturnal animals, but may venture from their lairs in the early morning hours. With the exception of the highly social spotted hyena, hyenas are generally not gregarious animals, though they may live in family groups and congregate at kills.
Actors: Antonio Scarpitta (editor), Massimo Dobrovic (actor), Lisa Vachon (writer), Julian Grant (actor), Garth Wynne-Jones (actor), Neal Kumar (actor), Yvonne Cowling (producer), Yvonne Cowling (writer), Yvonne Cowling (director), Michelle Leroy (actress), Avi Nash (actor), Kilyoung Baek (editor), Manuela Mosquera (actress), Andrew Goodloe (composer), Kristen Pickrell (actress),
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Plot: After his parents' death, Jacob Jankowski is left penniless and homeless. Events lead him to joining the circus as their vet, working under their unstable boss August whose violent tendencies give everyone reason to be cautious around him, including his beautiful and quiet wife Marlena, whom August is very possessive of and who Jacob finds himself soon falling in love with.
Keywords: 1930s, abusive-husband, animal-abuse, animal-in-title, bad-temper, based-on-novel, big-top, brutality, circus, circus-horseActors: Matthew Corbett Davis (actor), Joshua A. Siegel (editor), Joshua A. Siegel (director), Joshua A. Siegel (actor), Joshua A. Siegel (writer), Joshua A. Siegel (producer), James Wallace Walton (actor), Joe Calavita (actor), Martijn de Man (composer), Braidon Thorn (actor), Steven L. Everson (actor), Chris Madrigal (actor), Angie Griffin (actress), Darren Courtney (actor), Brent Walsh (composer),
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Keywords: cartoon-cat, cartoon-kangaroo, cartoon-mouse, hippety-hopper, kangaroo-mistaken-for-large-rodent, looney-tunes, sylvester-the-catActors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Leon Schlesinger (producer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Chuck Jones (director), Treg Brown (editor),
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