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  • thin Ethiopia.

  • There is a man who is friends with hyenas.

  • Not that cute dogs or cats, but the wild, dangerous hyenas.

  • Tha Who is this guy?

  • Why is he not afraid to be eaten?

  • And how many times was he attacked by a high two years ago?

  • I heard about a guy who eats and lives with hyenas.

  • I was so shocked that I had to go and see him by myself.

  • So I flew all the way to his country.

  • If yo Pia, one off the biggest African countries there I took another flight toe a remote village called Sarah.

  • And here I started to look for the hyena.

  • I searched everywhere and ask everyone.

  • People told me to go left, right straight and left again until I finally found Abbas.

  • Hi, My name is Abbas.

  • I am Heinemann.

  • This is the guy I came to see.

  • He is a second generation hyena man.

  • Hyena man.

  • See, Many years ago, Abbas's village had ah ha una problem.

  • These animals attacked humans and killed their animals.

  • And as a form off defense, the Villagers attacked the hyenas back.

  • This went on for so many years until one day Abbas's dad came up with a plan instead, off killing the hyenas.

  • He wanted to feed them and become friendly with them.

  • He fed them night after night after night after night until one day he and his son about became friends with the hyenas.

  • There are my friends.

  • So now, decades later, every morning Abbas still goes to the food market toe by his friends.

  • Meat.

  • I buy them food, Theune.

  • He goes home and waits until the sun sets.

  • Because that is when hyenas go out to eat.

  • Oh my God!

  • Hyenas in a in a way.

  • In the darkness off the night, Abbas sits and waits for his friends to show up Slowly but surely, they come out and with the hyenas trust him so much they even let him play with their cubs and he has names for each one of them.

  • Soon enough, things began to change.

  • The hyenas stopped attacking the village and killing their animals.

  • Now some of them even help the village by feeding on their trash.

  • This special relationship became so popular that tourists from all over the world come to see him and his hyenas.

  • It is a sight you will not see anywhere else.

  • Wow, She's gonna scratch my back.

  • I e you never know.

  • But just just wanted thanks.

  • Not to me.

  • Oh, my God.

  • Yes.

  • Oh, my God.

  • Oh, my God.

  • I was too scared to touch the hyenas, but I was inspired.

  • If mawr people treated animals with love and respect like Abbas does, then we can build a much better world for humans and animals alike.

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