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The title is clickbait. There are have not been any known confirmed spottings, but, according to the article: "However, Hofer and Mills (1998), mentioned unconf
by misja111 2y ago
The title is clickbait. There are have not been any known confirmed spottings, but, according to the article: "However, Hofer and Mills (1998), mentioned unconfirmed records from Egypt through questionnaire surveys."
I would think that 5K is a long time for any event to occur, however unlikely. The fact that there was no confirmed spotting doesn't mean all that much to me, especially if you look back all the way into ancient history where certainly not every animal sighting was recorded.
- mmooss 2y ago> There are have not been any known confirmed spottings ? from the OP: The lone individual was caught and killed by people around 30 km from the border with Sudan, a paper in Mammalia reports. My first reaction was disbelief until I checked the photos and videos of the remains," said the study's lead author, Dr. Abdullah Nagy from Al-Azhar University, Egypt. "Seeing the evidence, I was completely taken aback. It was beyond anything we had expected to find in Egypt."
- technothrasher 2y agoI believe the nit misja111 was picking was that just because this was the first confirmed sighting doesn't mean other ones weren't found there in the past 5K years by people who didn't report them.
- jjk166 2y agoWe know from fossil evidence that spotted hyenas used to live in egypt but died out there about 5000 years ago. The striped hyena remained. This was not some improbable random event that took 5000 years to be observed. Climate change recently created a new corridor of acceptable conditions that allowed a hyena from a distant region to migrate.