On quiet nights across large swaths of the African bush, you may hear a series of whooping calls in the distance. This unique sound is the long-distance vocalisation used by spotted hyenas (Crocuta ...

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Source: Kate Shaw Yoshida, used with permission. Using 27 years of detailed observations of spotted hyena social interactions, researchers uncovered a pattern of social network inheritance between ...