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Перевод: hyaena

[существительное]
гиена

Тезаурус:

1. A hyaena's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it.
2. A. human bone from Turkey buried in alkaline soil with scrub oak vegetation, showing extensive root marks that have coalesced to give an appearance of surface corrosion; B. sheep bone from stream (pH 5.4) in Wales showing the result of long term immersion in water, with breakdown of the surface structure of the bone and formation of large scale pitting; C. bovid bone from Tanzania which was buried in the floor of a hyaena den and subjected to trampling and decay from urine and organic acids, destructuring the surface leaving large scale pits and occasional islands of unaltered surface bone; D. horse bone from Sphagnum bog in Dartmoor (pH 3.5) showing acid etching of the bone producing pitting following and enlarging original structures in the bone.
3. The vertebrates found from that period include mammoth and other extinct elephants, extinct rhino, hippopotamus, giant deer, lion, spotted hyaena, tortoise and macaque (from the "monkey gravel" of West Runton, Norfolk - where else?).
4. A hyaena's nose, however, is vastly more sensitive than ours.
5. The effects of this on the bones is of some interest for comparison with the effects of gnawing of larger bone by larger predators (for example, see Bonnichsen, 1973; Sutcliffe, 1970; Hill, 1975, 1976; Binford, 1981; Haynes, 1980, 1983), for there is direct correspondence between, for instance hyaena gnawing on large antelope bones, wolf gnawing on smaller bovid bones, fox gnawing on small bovids and lagomorphs and shrew gnawing on rodent bones.
6. With a sniff a hyaena can perceive not only the here and now but, simultaneously, a whole series of events stretching back into the past.
7. Perhaps, with its powerful jaws, it also routinely crunched up bones of dead carcasses to get at the marrow, a scavenger-cum-predator like today's lion or hyaena.