There are four species of hyenas, namely, the spotted hyena, the brown hyena, the striped hyena, and the aardwolf (which is sometimes classified separately due to its unique feeding habits).

"The art of tracking may well be the origin of science." This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, ...

Our earlier interpretation had been that the trackmaker might have been a hyena, probably the brown hyena. We were vindicated when our master tracker colleagues independently reached the identical ...