Lions and hyenas: relentless enemies on the African landscape. Or so stereotypes would have us believe. A video taken May 2016 at Maasai Mara, Kenya opens with a male lion gnawing on the bones of its ...

It may sound surprising, but groups of hyenas will sometimes take on animals much larger than themselves, even lions. Although usually, the lion is not a full-grown male, but rather a younger lion or ...

In the video, we see a male lion roaring at a group of hyenas. From the description, we learn that the lion, named Sirikoi, is a dominant male living in the Nairobi National Park. According to the ...

A safari guide in Sabi Sands of Kruger National Park in South Africa captured remarkable footage of a hyena that somehow managed to escape the grip of a lion. “I was responding to a leopard on a kill ...

In the original animated Lion King, the hyenas were depicted as crass lowlifes that many interpreted as thinly veiled stand-ins for minorities. The new version goes in a different direction. In case ...

You know what I think about a lot? The lies Mufasa tells! Ever since initially seeing The Lion King as a kid, I felt sympathy for the hyenas. Banzai, Shenzi, and Ed were banished from the Pride Lands, ...

The hyenas in the original Lion King were decidedly among the bad guys, but they had some unusual motivations: they aligned with archvillain Scar in hopes of landing a good meal. “We’ll have food, ...

In a moment one could imagine as a harrowing scene straight out of Disney’s “The Lion King,” footage shared by BBC Earth recently captured a lion’s intense struggle to fend off more than 20 hyenas.

A blind lion lying on the road was soon surrounded by a pack of hungry hyenas, but, interestingly, the hyenas did not act as expected. Normally, a pack of hyenas would not hesitate to attack and kill ...