But I admit I thought this was going to be about the banks and Wall Street.
I do wonder what would happen if there was a drought or outbreak of something that would make the domestic animal supply very scarce. Would the hyenas go elsewhere or start hunting people or just become less numerous. Or maybe people would start hunting hyenas.
Okay, that reminds me of Wall Street too.

The people tolerate a small amount of predation on their livestock and in return the hyena's clean up the sick and dead animals.

This acceptance is alien to the Western European "Exterminate Them All!" perspective.

This is probably a long established relationship. People only killed the hyenas who were exceptionally dangerous to humans or livestock. Hyena society learned what humans considered "fair game," and human society learned to tolerate the presence of hyenas.

We ought to have this same sort of relationship with wolves in the USA. Most Native American cultures did.

Animals are intelligent. While they were being hunted, gray whales were thought to be dangerous. They'd be quick to smash small boats. Hunting stopped, and now we see them as peaceful giants.