In most mammals, males disperse to a new group after reaching sexual maturity. Dispersal often entails costs and is risky. New results from spotted hyenas show that males from the same birth group -- ...
Spotted hyenas adjust to a decreased presence of migratory prey in their territories induced by climate change. This is the key result of a paper recently published in the scientific journal Ecosphere ...
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 ...
The spotted hyena is Africa's most successful predator—and one of its most misunderstood animals. But decades of cutting edge research is yielding greater understanding, respect, and protection. A ...
Discover how heat impacts the animals, as the new waterhole becomes busier in the evening. Discover how hotter weather impacts the animals, as the waterhole becomes busier in the evening cool.
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 ...
As dusk begins cloaking the Maasai Mara grasslands of southwestern Kenya, a spotted hyena slinks beneath the woody umbrella that is the acacia tree. The carnivore pauses, its rounded ears cocking ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the ...
The combination of dogged field expeditions and machine learning algorithms has revealed that long-distance hyena calls feature signatures unique to individuals -- a form of caller ID distinct enough ...