For conservation and the management of human–wildlife conflicts, it is of great interest to know which species are eaten by carnivores. Scientists from the Ngorongoro Hyena Project at the Leibniz ...

The extraordinary discovery of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in Egypt after 5,000 years of being assumed extinct in the country serves as a high point of evolution and an anomaly in its own ...

Hyenas are one of the most misunderstood mammals in the wild. They are often seen as dim-witted scavengers who feast only on the carcasses left over by other predators. But in reality, these dog-like ...

The teeth in a hyena's jaw are adapted for tearing at carcasses and crushing bones. The diet varies by hyena species. Brown and striped hyenas feed mainly on carrion but supplement this with insects, ...

When a scientist received a video of a spotted hyena in the southern part of his country, he thought someone was playing a trick on him. By Darren Incorvaia See more of our coverage in your search ...

As night falls over the ancient walled city of Harar, something unusual happens just beyond the gates. One by one, wild spotted hyenas slip out of the darkness, their powerful jaws and eerie calls ...

Spotted hyena clans flip the script on mammalian power: here, dominance is inherited, alliances matter most and females rule every level of society. Many social carnivores follow male-dominant scripts ...