animalHyenaBeings · NatureHyena as an animal people have named and used. Laughter, scavenging, clan grit — one living kind, not a single symbol.Hyena is used in Medicine.Pliny’s Natural History gives the hyena an extended remedy chapter among Magian and Roman pharmacological listings. A named hyena in that encyclopedia’s drug speech, not a modern scavenger dump and not a shape-change folklore flatten alone.from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CEused in · sourced · documentedsourcesNatural History · Pliny the ElderPliny, Naturalis Historia.