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Wayne didn’t expect to see them here - not in this deep, humid corner of the Congo Basin where the forest seems to swallow sound and sunlight alike. Yet there they were: the unmistakable spotted hyena tracks pressed into the soft sand where forest meets swamp. For a moment he just stood there, grinning at the sheer audacity of it. Hyena - those masters of uncertainty, those opportunists who thrive in heat, drought, savanna, and chaos - quietly moving through a realm better known for elephants, g