Little black cubs!

Great south morning today, the south hyenas now have three dens, all of which are very active in a triangle about 400 to 500m away from each other. When at Boone D we can see both Monster den and FML den and all the hyenas at each respective den. Just Bellagio, Rasta, and Biscuit at FML but Biscuit was being totally adorable as usual. Next we went and checked out Monster den where we’ve been seeing clovis and there was a new hyena there! Not only was Clovis and Brophy chilling out by the den (brophy does not have cubs but she’s been hanging around) but Trumain was also there! Have not seen her since July I think at a carcass. Onekama, a male, was hanging out and Clovis and Brophy ran away from the den to chase him off and then Trumain sticks her head in a hole and PULLS OUT A TINY LITTLE BLACK CUB and then plunks him down into a hole a few feet away. Unfortunately his face was titled away from us so I couldn’t see if he had white eyebrows or white rings. But I would imagine he was pretty young. Also unfortunately this hole happened to be Clovis’ hole so when Clovis came back and sat down in the hole on top of Trumain, Trumain got really upset and start squealing and def growling but of course since Trumain is the lowest ranking adult female and Clovis the second highest that wasn’t happening. Dave had just started getting some Taj points south of Monster den so we drove over there next and found another 6 hyenas including Java, the alpha, Taj, Whiz, Komo, Kneesocks and a male Toledo. We saw a torn phallus on Kneesocks the other day which is kind of crazy because she is one of the old females that we call the ‘golden girls’ and has never been seen to have cubs while the hyena lab has been studying them. Maybe she always has still borns? I guess we’ll watch out and see if she has a live cub this time! We saw Komo’s baby at FML den so we’re not sure if she’s moved her baby over to Boone den or if she was just chilling there with her mom. Last we knew Java also had her baby at FML but maybe with Taj hanging out here Java and Komo both decided to move to Boone den. Whiz also had a torn phallus but this would be her first litter so it is not likely that they survived. This is Trumain’s second litter so we’re keeping our fingers crossed and thinking of dog breed names for her baby! Komo’s lineage is going to be spaceships and the cub that we saw head poke is going to be named Death Star. Drove around the rest of the territory and heard a few beeps from slinky but saw no one else, seems like this triangle of three dens is where EVERYONE is hanging out.