The hyenas of Harar: how a city fell in love with its bone-crunching scavengers
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In an ancient walled city in eastern Ethiopia, the animals are fed in return for cleaning up the streets and keeping spirits at bayPhotographs by Guillaume PetermannThe hyenas gather as night settles. The bolder animals come early and lounge around, undisturbed by the loud blare of mosques calling people to prayer. By the time Abbas Yusuf arrives, dozens lurk in the semi-darkness, pacing over shards of splintered bone and broken glass.Abbas whistles and calls, tossing out a few chunks of meat....

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