Baby Hyena Bites On People's Shoes After They Saved Him | Cuddle Buddies
Nov 9, 2026
This little brown hyena had a challenging start to life, but no one gave up on him! The Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage rescued two brown hyenas, a breeding pair and discovered a pregnancy. A little brown hyena, Atlas, was born but was sadly rejected by his mom. The team stepped in immediately and now he’s got a fighting chance at a good life. Plus he’s too cute! …
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AI GeneratedAtlas is a rescued hyena cub currently being raised at a wildlife orphanage. After being found abandoned and battling pneumonia, he has grown from a fragile infant into a playful, energetic cub. The caregivers aim to rehabilitate him for eventual release into the wild while challenging the negative stereotypes associated with hyenas.
This little brown hyena cub is a very very naughty boy.
Good boy.
Even though we give him all the toys in the world,
he still prefers to bite in your toes.
Maybe not my shoe.
Give me your little teeth.
He's jumping around a lot.
There's a lot of things in his mind that are like,
I want to be as messy as possible.
I couldn't even believe it.
Just a few months ago he was like really tiny and fragile.
And I will never forget that night when Atlas was born.
It's never our preferred situation
to take an animal away from his parents.
But the family here checked on Atlas
and they saw he was all by himself.
We are a wildlife orphanage, so we were like,
okay, we have to act immediately.
We put him inside
and we would feed him extra puppy milk imported from South Africa.
But because also of the cold and the situation he was born into,
he developed pneumonia.
We would take him to the vet almost every day he got antibiotics
and we just prayed it would
help keep him alive.
Luckily he was slowly step by step getting better.
He starts to play a little bit.
He starts to slowly walk and stumble.
Now you can see
that he differentiates between people.
When I sit inside and I play with him he comes to me
and then sometimes when strangers come
in he will be very very cautious.
But that's actually a good thing,
it's not our goal to have a cuddle buddy with us all this time.
We want to build this outside enclosure
for him to get back into the wild later.
Seeing Atlas grow has really
been a dream come true.
So many people find hyenas ugly and they have such a bad reputation but
we hope to change the minds of people.
Atlas melts my heart and I think he will melt everyone's heart.
If you are rescuing or thinking of adopting an exotic animal,
please make sure to contact
professionals and do your research
so that they can have the best life possible.