Dog
Dog noun - A domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes.
Hyena
Hyena noun - Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.
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Riddick: "Not-Furya" is arid and seemingly only inhabited by large hyena/dog creatures that can apparently be domesticated and giant scorpion creatures that live in mud puddles.
Source: Death World -
Nosferatu used a striped hyena to pose as a werewolf, which is pretty clever given that it's dog-like but also alien to viewers in the 1920s.
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Humanoid Animals: The mice, the rats, the dog-hyena-people Sand Raiders, the Catatonians and the Plutarkians all fit this.
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