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{{Speciesbox
| name = Brown hyaena
| fossil_range = [[Pliocene]] – Recent
| status = NT
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |title=''Parahyaena brunnea'' |author=Wiesel, I. |year=2015 |page=e.T10276A82344448}}</ref>
| image = Brown Hyena (Parahyaena brunnea) (6472926331).jpg
| image_caption = At the [[Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park|Gemsbok National Park]], [[South Africa]]
| genus = Hyaena
| species = brunnea
| authority = [[Carl Peter Thunberg|Thunberg]], 1820
| range_map = Brown Hyaena area.png
| range_map_caption = Geographic range
| synonyms = *''Parahyena brunnea'' <small>(Thunberg, 1820)</small>
}}

The '''brown hyaena''' (''Hyaena brunnea''), also called '''strandwolf''',<ref name=SOED>{{cite book|title=Shorter Oxford English dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/shorteroxfordeng0001unse_b7h4|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-0199206872|pages=3804}}</ref> is a species of [[hyaena]]. It is found in [[Namibia]], [[Botswana]], western and southern [[Zimbabwe]],<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Williams|first1=Samual T.|last2=Williams|first2=Kathryn S.|last3=Joubert|first3=Christoffel J.|last4=Hill|first4=Russell A.|title=The impact of land reform on the status of large carnivores in Zimbabwe|journal=PeerJ|date=14 January 2016|volume=4|pages=e1537|doi=10.7717/peerj.1537|pmid=26819838|pmc=4728035}}</ref> southern [[Mozambique]] and [[South Africa]].

It is the rarest species of hyaena.<ref name="macdonald">''Chapter 4: Rich Man's Table'' from David MacDonald’s ''The Velvet Claw'' BBC books, 1992</ref> The largest remaining brown hyaena population is in the southern [[Kalahari Desert]] and coastal areas in Southwest Africa.<ref name="Hole">{{cite web|last1=Holekamp|first1=Kay|title=Home|url=http://www.hyaenidae.org/the-hyaenidae/brown-hyaena-parahyaena-brunnea.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224105140/http://www.hyaenidae.org/the-hyaenidae/brown-hyaena-parahyaena-brunnea.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-12-24|website=IUCN Hyaena Specialist Group|publisher=IUCN}}</ref> 

The total population of brown hayaena is between 4,000 and 10,000 ([[International Union for the Conservation of Nature|IUCN]]). Its [[conservation status]] is 'near threatened' in the [[IUCN Red List]].<ref name=iucn />

== References ==
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[[Category:Hyaenas]]
[[Category:Mammals of Africa]]