The first of my delightful Patreonoms from the radical, the radial, the radar-reflective: Rodicle! Yaaay!

In the world of 20xx, most people will tell you there are four extant kinds of hyaenids in the world: the highly matriarchal spotted yeenos; the Extremely Sassy stripey yeens; the huge but gentle cave hyenas, and the enthusiastic aardwolves.

There is, however, a minority fringe that believes that this isn't the whole story and that evidence exists of a fifth type of yeeno that suddenly just...vanished. San Tejon's Notable Ghost Toucher and Cryptid Hunter, Alrik Yeenobotham is an enthusiastic member of that minority, raised on marathons of The Historyeen Channel's Ancient Aliums and Scary Monsters That Most Probably Exist For Real, Alrik is convinced that the shyest, most polite, most fluffiest hyenas gradually formed their own species, eventually becoming Brown Hyenas (brown being the politest color).

Alrik believes these rare hyenas to be so shy that they disguise themselves using advanced alium technology to hide from anything Rude.

Laughed at by orthodox scienceyeens, who believe it is most objectively unpossible for an entire species to exist unobserved by their Extremely Accurate and sciency looking measuring instruments which would um, probably blink a Science Light or make a Science Noise if they existed; Alrik most probably wants to believe and he has one piece of evidence that thus far no one has been able to convincingly debunk.

The Truth is Um, Most Probably Out There (if that's ok)

One day as Alrik was closely examining several pictures of teen lion surfer Hunter St. Leon and had just pulled down his underwear when he turned around and realized he was being observed by an oddly colored and excessively fluffy yeenoboy. Alrik quickly snapped a picture with his phone but after he briefly turned away so as not to expose himself the yeen boy was gone and only his two potted plants remained.

The truth is far more shocking than even Alrik suspects, while rare, Brown Yeenos walk among us, having developed the ability to resemble everyday objects such as potted plants, cactuses, lamps, and anything else roughly yeeno sized.

Pictured: c2b3a22bfe4c3bc (Brown Yeens are so private their names use 128-bit encryption) on an unauthorized research mission to check out another boy's Business. Unfortunately, after taking off his pants they transformed back into a ficus, which briefly left him exposed. Fortunately, his covert stealth training kicked in and he whistled nonchalantly until he could regain his refractive camouflage. He hasn't told anyone he was spotted but he's pretty sure it's not a big deal and there will be no repercussions!