Even if you're a well-trained scientist, sometimes you see something that leaves you breathless. For a team of ecology researchers, the February 2024 sighting of a spotted hyena in southeastern Egypt ...

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 ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across West Africa. Yet in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, the famously spotted feline appears to be doing rather well—surprisingly, given the reserve ...

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 ...

In January, Hattiesburg Zoo officials held a gender reveal for its spotted hyena cub Kito. Less than a year later the zoo announced the birth of two more hyena cubs to mother Pili. “Pili was a ...

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 ...

Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge near Eureka Springs has 85 lions and tigers and bears -- along with bobcats, cougars, leopards and African servals -- that call its 450 acres home. But this winter, ...

July 15 (UPI) --A new study of social relations among spotted hyenas could offer insights into the evolution of social relations among humans. The study -- published Thursday in the journal Science-- ...

Hattiesburg Zoo held a gender reveal for one of its newest inhabitants, a spotted hyena. It took nearly an hour for mom Pili to pull the rope that released the blue confetti. Wild animals are ...