Sure, hyenas laugh. But did you know they groan, giggle and whoop too? Researchers at UC Berkeley have been listening to the calls of a colony of hyenas in the Berkeley hills and just released a paper ...

Confounding their usual cinematic portrayal as incessantly giggling numskulls, hyenas turn out to rank among the savvier characters on the African savanna. A new study finds that wild spotted hyenas ...

Welcome back to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Linda Wertheimer. Now, even if you've never heard a laughing hyena in the wild, you might recognize this hyena. Mr. CHEECH MARIN (Actor): (as Banzai) It's ...