Ammon News - AMMONNEWS — Police and municipal workers on Saturday killed a hyena in the capital’s northern suburb of Shafa Badran after they failed to catch it alive to send it to a zoo.
The striped hyena is native to the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia and India.
The carnivorous mammal is frequently mentioned in Middle Eastern literature and folklore as a dangerous predator or a symbol of treachery, although attacks on human beings are rare, according to web sources.
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