running hyena

Noun

running hyena (plural running hyenas)

1. An extinct genus of hyenas, †Chasmaporthetes.
   • In Africa between 1.8 million and 900,000 ʙᴘ the Paracolobus - Africa's largest monkey, three species of sabretooth (which survived in Eurasia and America), ten species of elephant-like Proboscidea, one or more 'forest hippo' (Hexaprotodon) species, the large ground-sloth analogue Ancylotherium...2010, Craig Dilworth, Too Smart for Our Own Good, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 76
   • The American Hyena, also called the Running Hyena, shared more physical characteristics with wolves and dogs than with most other hyena species. This Hyena's closest relative, the Aardwolf, is still alive today.2016 February 17, Ted Rechlin, Prehistoric Beasts of the Ice Age, Courier Dover Publications, →ISBN