Diet

The cave hyena's diet probably differed little from contemporary African spotted hyenas, and like living spotted hyenas, cave hyenas probably lived in groups (which in living spotted hyenas are called "clans") and were active predators rather than purely scavengers (with hunting being predominant over scavenging in the living spotted hyena). The bones of cave hyena prey were often cracked open/crushed in order to feed on the interior marrow, as is done by living spotted hyenas.

The diet

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