Most individuals assume that hyenas belong to the same family as wild dogs due to their appearances and hunting behaviour, not realising that hyenas are considered closer to cats than any other dog ...

Hominins—the group that includes humans and our extinct relatives—may have been capable of competing with giant hyenas for carcasses abandoned by saber-toothed cats and jaguars during the late-early ...

Spotted hyenas live in groups that may exceed 100, working together to hunt and raise their young. They're incredibly successful social... When anthropologists work to reconstruct the lives of our own ...

For conservation and the management of human–wildlife conflicts, it is of great interest to know which species are eaten by ...

It's already been shown that hyenas ate humans, but did early humans likewise dine on hyenas? They might have, say Spanish researchers who found evidence of human "processing" of hyena bones in an ...

Spotted hyenas are an exception in the animal kingdom not only due to female dominance over males, but also because of the strict female linear hierarchy which determines priority of access to ...

Dheer A, Danabalan R, Pellizzone A, Naman P, Davidian E, Mazzoni CJ, Höner OP (2026): Minimal impact of spotted hyenas on livestock and endangered species in a prey-rich ecosystem. Wildlife Biology ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Spotted hyena clans flip the script on mammalian power: here, dominance is inherited, ...