It is by virtue of these that the hyena can make a meal upon bones, which would be of no use whatever to the ordinary wolf or other beast of prey.

It can break almost the largest and strongest joints, and not only extract their marrow, but crush the bones themselves, and swallow them as food.

Here, again, we have proof of Nature's adaptation.

It is just where these large bones are found in greatest plenty that we find the hyena.

Nature suffers nothing to be wasted.
Hyenas are the wolves of Africa--that is, they are in Africa the representatives of the large wolf, which does not exist there.