For the first time in over five millennia, a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) has been documented in Egypt, marking an extraordinary event in the region’s wildlife history. This solitary predator ...

Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in the Masai Mara, Kenya. | Credit: Laika ac Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom , by ...

Scavengers often get a bad rap — hyena giggles are nefarious, crows gather in “murders” and the naked necks of vultures speak for themselves. But the bodies of the dead don’t just disappear.

A new scientific study shows for the first time in spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) twin litters, that success in sibling competition for maternal milk is influenced by training effects, sex and ...

The pseudopenises of female spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta), however, are different.They can be up to 90% as large as male penises and, at least from the outside, look almost exactly like actual ...

Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) hunting and feeding on red-billed queleas (Quelea quelea) in Etosha National Park, Namibia . Credit: Food Webs (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2024.e00340 ...

An African wild dog (Lycaon pictus, left) compared to a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta, right). Both photographed at the Bronx Zoo. It never fails. Whenever I visit a zoo’s African wild dog ...

The extraordinary discovery of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) in Egypt after 5,000 years of being assumed extinct in the country serves as a high point of evolution and an anomaly in its own ...