Spotted Hyena

mmmmmm...Zebra leg for breakfast! This spotted Hyena was living up to its nature as a scavenger of the African plains and making off with a nice fresh bit of Zebra leg from a recent kill and crossed the path infront of us on an early morning game drive through Amboseli National park.
The spotted hyena is the most social of the Carnivora in that it has the largest group sizes and most complex social behaviours.[12] Its social organisation is unlike that of any other Carnivore, bearing closer resemblance to that of cercopithecine primates (baboons and macaques) with respect to group-size, hierarchical structure, and frequency of social interaction among both kin and unrelated group-mates.[13] However, the social system of the spotted hyena is openly competitive rather than cooperative, with access to kills, mating opportunities and the time of dispersal for males depending on the ability to dominate other clan-members. Females provide only for their own cubs rather than assist each other, and males display no paternal care. Spotted hyena society is matriarchal; females are larger than males, and dominate them.