In Mekelle, a town in northern Ethiopia, research has exposed and quantified the economic and health benefits that spotted hyenas bring to the community. Every year, they consume over 200 tons of ...

NAIROBI: Bodies with gunshot wounds lay in the streets for days in Ethiopia’s holiest city. At night, residents listened in horror as hyenas fed on the corpses of people they knew. But they were ...

The Ethiopian city of Harare is known for the tradition of feeding hyenas every night. It dates back to a famine in the 19th century, when food was offered to the hyenas to deter them from eating ...

In Ethiopia, feeding hyenas is a tourist attraction SPH Brightcove Video. Abbas Yusuf, known as Hyena Man, is offering the tourists of Harar the opportunity to feed hyenas scraps of meat.

But feeding wild hyenas with scraps of meat by hand surely puts us at the mercy of these animals, one they don’t show in other parts of Ethiopia. Getting close to animals whose bite is almost two ...

The Ethiopian city of Harare is known for the tradition of feeding hyenas every night. It dates back to a famine in the 19th century, when food was offered to the hyenas to deter them from eating ...

Abbas Yusuf, known as Hyena Man, has been protecting the ancient walled city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia from hyenas for decades by feeding them daily directly from his mouth.

A family in Ethiopia’s walled city of Harar has taken up the task of domesticating Hyenas, turning them into scavengers for the city’s waste. | World News ...

HARAR, Ethiopia | Morgeta Olemaria ... For about 25 years, men like Mr. Olemaria have been feeding hyenas on the outskirts of the 1,000-year-old walled Old City of Harar by hand nightly.

Here in this medieval city in eastern Ethiopia, the humans and the hyenas are living in peace. The truce began two centuries ago (or so the story goes) during a time of great famine.