On a wind-scoured morning, in the village of Abu Ramad, the gateway to Jabal Elba (Elba Mountain) in the Halaib area of Egypt’s Red Sea Governorate, a pair of mutilated sheep signaled the return of a visitor from the past—the spotted hyena. Once hunted and fattened by ancient Egyptians as a feast delicacy, the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) had vanished from the region for over five millennia. In 2024, it has traversed deserts and borders into a land that no longer remembers how to live alongside it. According to Aldoushy Mahdy, Associate Professor of Aquatic Ecology & Marine Biology, Al-Azhar University (Assiut), there have been no more sightings since then. “Local shepherds came upon two sheep that had been killed and partially eaten, which was a rare occurrence in our region,” Faisal Ohag, an English teacher living in Halaib, said. The huge, violent bite marks on the prey and the footprint of the predator, much larger than that of a dog, raised alarms about the predator. The shepherds rallied the locals, following the footprints by car, motorcycle, and camel to a cave in Jabal Elba, where, to their surprise, theyContinue reading "Egypt’s Wildlife Returns to Villagers Who No Longer Know How to Live With It"
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