Spotted hyenas live in one of the most aggressive and tightly controlled matriarchal societies in the animal kingdom, where females dominate males both socially and physically . Power inside the clan ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A spotted hyena takes focus in this scene as The Lion Whisperer introduces the character of Geena’s clan. The sharp teeth, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The combination of dogged field expeditions and machine learning algorithms has revealed that long-distance hyena calls feature signatures unique to individuals -- a form of caller ID distinct enough ...

The video above from YouTube user Larry Egolf shows a nerve-racking scene where a group of Cape buffalo protects their calves. The group is separated from the herd and is harassed by a large clan of ...