HYENAS

I don't have a ton of photos of this species: this sweet old man was the only one anywhere near me. He's since passed, so I wanted to get photos of him online. All he wanted to do the times I saw him was relax in the sun, so that's how we'll remember him.

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More photos, as always, on the site:

The Animal Photo Reference Repository is an independent, permanently open-access project and funded entirely by donations. Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use all photos in the repository as references.

Let's use mama as a pillow

I saw a some people making fucking AI SLOP of this hyena and I wanted to actually draw her.

The ref:

indian striped hyena (hyaena hyaena) in blackbuck national park, velavadar, gujarat, india

Striped Hyena (Hyaena hyaena), family Hyaenidae, order Carnivora, Maharashtra, India

I didn't, but now I have one made one for you~