Engraving of spotted hyenas
Date 1894
Source Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools
Author Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brehms_spotted_hyenas.png

The spotted hyena or laughing hyena (Crocuta crocuta) is a species of hyena, currently classed as the sole member of the genus Crocuta, native to Sub-Saharan Africa. Its current distribution is patchy in many places, especially in West Africa. There is a continuous distribution over large areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia and the Transvaal Lowveld areas of South Africa.