Hyenas might be the most misunderstood animal – Are they dogs? Big cats? Evil, trouble-making sidekicks? (Thanks, Lion King!) Dr. Christine Wilkinson relates to this ambiguous perception as a ...

A spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) on the plains of the Mara A few kilometres from the Big Cat Live camp was a hyena den whose occupants we were able to follow on the webcams and with thermal imaging ...

Polish director Grzegorz Lewandowski makes his feature debut with the children’s horror story Hyena (Hiena), which was presented as part of the International Critics Week on the Venetian Lido today.

Hyenas are smart, tough animals that live in Africa, the Mideast and India. Although they resemble dogs, they are more closely related to cats. Known as scavengers that eat animals killed by other ...

Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across West Africa. Yet in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, the famously spotted feline appears to be doing rather well—surprisingly, given the reserve ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. The basic concept of counting is beyond most animals, but not hyenas. They are able to count almost as well as primates, another indicator that these ...

Hyenas can count up to three. Researchers playing recorded calls to the wily carnivores found that wild spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) responded differently depending on whether they heard one, two ...