Hyenas

The scavengers were quick to arrive. The hippo had been dead less than 24 hours and already there was a plethora of vultures and hyenas gorging amongst each other for the feast. This was a large bounty and for every animal there, it was highly important to grasp as much meat as possible.

In between shrieks from the hyenas and hoarse squawks from the vultures, the feeding party tolerated each other. As the carcass slowly deteriorated the rampant rapacious conflict begin. It seemed to me that greed was ever present…at first lingering, then quite suddenly the sole purpose. Desecrated scraps of flesh and sinew became items of wealth and the previously permissive creatures quickly turned on each other in their own selfish pursuits.