Man-eater - Hyena

Hyena

Although hyena will readily feed upon human corpses, hyena as a whole are very wary of man and are much less dangerous than the big cats whose territory overlaps with theirs. Nonetheless, both the spotted hyena and the smaller striped hyena are powerful predators quite capable of killing an adult human, and are known to attack people when food is scarce. Like most predators, hyena attacks tend to target women, children, and infirm men - though both species can and do attack healthy adult males on occasion. The spotted hyena is the more dangerous of the two species, being larger, more predatory and more aggressive than the striped hyena. The brown hyena is not known to prey on humans.