{"id":644,"date":"2009-11-17T03:58:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T08:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2009-11-17T03:58:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T08:58:23","slug":"hyena-feeding-harar-ethiopia-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/hyena-feeding-harar-ethiopia-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyena Feeding, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hyena Feeding #1, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009 by larkvi (on a research trip, checking rarely), on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/4109043988\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2607\/4109043988_013e7bf742_o.jpg\" alt=\"Hyena Feeding #1, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Hyena Feeding #2, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009 by larkvi (on a research trip, checking rarely), on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/4109051846\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2691\/4109051846_2c5896ab52_o.jpg\" alt=\"Hyena Feeding #2, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Hyena Feeding #3, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009 by larkvi (on a research trip, checking rarely), on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/larkvi\/4109057830\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2505\/4109057830_72e14a9286_o.jpg\" alt=\"Hyena Feeding #3, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The people of Harar have traditionally had a special relationship with hyenas, which, in addition to their role as scavengers, are believed to be able to carry off evil spirits by passing near a person so affected. The feeding of hyenas is carried out at two sites currently; one, the more popular with tourists, is at a muslim shrine (the locals are Sufis) outside the walls, and the feeder is the man who keeps the shrine. In addition to putting on a show of how close he gets to the animals while handing them their strips of camel meat, he will also let visitors feed the hyenas, handing them a stick pre-laden with meat, which the guest can then hold out for the hyenas. I fed them a few times, but did not take any photos while doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of Harar have traditionally had a special relationship with hyenas, which, in addition to their role as scavengers, are believed to be able to carry off evil spirits by passing near a person so affected. The feeding of hyenas is carried out at two sites currently; one, the more popular with tourists, is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/hyena-feeding-harar-ethiopia-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hyena Feeding, Harar, Ethiopia, 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,287,390,416,417],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-harar","tag-hyena","tag-hyena-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}