Shunka Warakin



The Shunka Warakin is said to be a unidentified canine-like creature said to resemble either a wolf, hyena or both. Stories of it dates back to Native Americans who told stories of it notably coming into their camps to kill dogs and carry them off to eat. Many theories have been thought up of what it could be from surviving prehistoric relics like dire wolves, hyaenodons, borophaginae (bone-crushing dogs) and chasmaporthetes (Only hyena that lived in the Americas) to perhaps being a new species of wolf.

It appeared in Season 4 in the episode titled American Hyena where it depicted them as hyena-like creatures that were responsible for the disappearances of trail riders in Yellowstone National Park and hunted the park rangers that were searching for them.