WHEN born into the clan, a male hyena right away realises that it is to be ruled by females all the days of its life. Such maybe a painful realisation but that is how nature has allowed things to be.

The Lion Whisperer meets his hyena clan in a video that introduces Geena, Woody, Nancy, and Ringo from the sanctuary. The title uses a familiar character-driven angle, making the video feel like a ...

In the movie The Lion King, hyenas are the villains. They’re portrayed as slobbering, mangy, stupid scavengers always ready to do someone else’s dirty work. It’s entertaining, but the caricature ...

DENVER — Three baby spotted hyenas arrived at the Denver Zoo this week. The trio came to Denver to start a new clan. Kelele, a male born June 26 arrived Thursday from the Buffalo Zoo. Two females that ...

Some kids adore horses — this tot loves hyenas. Two-year-old Kiki Wolhuter, of Zimbabwe, is a lifelong fan of the smiling, carnivorous mammals. The child’s parents introduced her to the predators when ...

When it comes to picking a mate, female hyenas prefer the mysterious stranger to the boy next door, researchers said Wednesday — in a finding that explains why male hyenas who leave the home clan are ...

In the video, we see a male lion roaring at a group of hyenas. From the description, we learn that the lion, named Sirikoi, is a dominant male living in the Nairobi National Park. According to the ...

Hyenas are one of the most misunderstood predator builds in the entire animal kingdom, constantly mocked as cowardly scavengers despite being among the most powerful and effective hunters in the ...

Spotted hyenas adjust to a decreased presence of migratory prey in their territories induced by climate change. This is the key result of a paper recently published in the scientific journal Ecosphere ...

On Wednesday, Vox published an article entitled “How a Pseudopenis-packing Hyena Smashes the Patriarchy’s Assumptions: Lessons from Female Spotted Hyenas for the #MeToo Era.” The piece, by Katherine J ...