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The spotted hyena from Aristotle to the Lion King: reputation is everything.(In the Company of Animals)

Social Research | September 22, 1995 | Copyright

As several distinguished authors of the present age have undertaken to reconcile the world to the Great Man-Killer of Modern times; as Aaron Burr has found an apologist, and almost a eulogist; and as learned commentators have recently discovered that even Judas Iscariot was a true disciple, we are rather surprised to find that some one has not undertaken to render the family of Hyenas popular and amiable in the eyes of mankind. Certain it is, that few marked characters in history have suffered more from the malign inventions of prejudice (Goodrich and Winchell, 1885, p. 283).…

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