The Shunka Warak’in: Montana’s Wolf-Hyena and the Ringdocus

The Madison Valley in Montana, where Israel Hutchins shot the animal later displayed as the Ringdocus in 1886

About 5 min readIn 1886 a Montana rancher shot a strange animal chasing his geese — dark-furred, high-shouldered, with a hyena’s sloping back. It was stuffed, displayed as the ‘Ringdocus’, lost for decades, and found again in 2007. It has never been DNA-tested.