Brown Hyena in Makgadikgadi Pans National Park

Parahyaena brunnea

Chance of an encounter
Rare

Drawn from open occurrence records in and around Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, aggregated onto a 10 km grid. A cell is matched by its centre, which can sit up to 16 km outside the boundary, so this covers the surrounding country too.

Occurrence records measure where people looked and found something, which is not the same as where the animal is. This is a relative likelihood, not a probability.

The evidence here

Grid cells
1
Records
0
Cell size
10 km
Years covered
2017 to 2019

A grid cell is a square of the map, not a sighting: 1 square of 10 km carry records for Brown Hyena in and around Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, and the 0 records behind them were collected by other people and published openly. Nothing here counts animals, and a place with more records is not always a place with more animals.

About the Brown Hyena

The brown hyena is the animal you are least likely to see on this list, and the one worth wanting most. There may be fewer than ten thousand left on Earth, and this coast is their stronghold.

The full field guide entry, and everywhere else it is recorded

Before you go

Never follow a brown hyena; being trailed can make it abandon a foraging route it needs.