On one occasion a man was brought in after a hyena had ripped much of his scalp away while he was sleeping, leaving it hanging down over his eyes. Last year a mother camping outside St Stephanos church near the Hilton Hotel had her baby son snatched from her arms and killed by a hyena. In December the authorities organised a cull, and licensed hunters killed 10 hyenas that were living on an overgrown four-hectare site near the heart of the capital which they reached along the bed of the Kebena river.
At least half-a-dozen other dens have been reported close to the city centre. The authorities had to act again when a female hyena built a den in a drainpipe in a densely populated neighbourhood called Shiro Meada right behind the US embassy. She gave birth to two cubs there. She was eventually shot in January, and Stephen took the month-old cubs home.
They are now living on the bed in his spare room. They are called Screamer and Stylo, and they are ugly-looking creatures. They destroy the mattress, the curtains, the cupboards - everything.
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If they work together as a team, it dramatically increases their hunting success. If two of them hunt wildebeest calves they are five times as successful as one operating alone. A group of three can target wildebeest and if they operate in groups of four they can tackle eland and gemsbok.
Where clans are large and there is competition from other predators, they gorge themselves as fast as possible. They also mark areas by defecating in large middens and by pawing the ground to deposit smelly secretions from glands on their feet.
The battles usually involve all members of the two clans, in which the losers are savaged and killed. Cubs dominate males and once they have been admitted to the clan, immigrant males also outrank resident males. Cubs inherit the rank of the mother. The new cub will also rank above their older siblings. The privileges of being high-ranking females are priority access to food and resting sites near the den entrance. The aggressive animal curls its tail over its back, pricks its ears forward and, keeps its mouth closed.
Here the animal on the right seems to be winning this battle. A submissive hyena holds its ears low, opens its mouth, and tucks its tail between its legs. Grinning and laying the ears back display a submissive greeting.
The calls are very loud and can carry for more than 5 km. These are long-range signals to inform clan members of each other's locations. Fast whoops are used to attract members to carcasses and to recruit them for confrontations against lions. The Kenya Wildlife Service is airlifting one of the survivors, a year-old boy who was mauled in the attack last week, to a hospital in the capital city of Nairobi to get better medical care.
The family was attacked July 10near Dilmanyale village while sleeping inside their traditional family compound, called a manyatta.
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