Hyenas are frequently vilified and often feared, but new research shows their scavenging provides significant public health and economic benefits to the African cities where they roam. A study ...

After dark outside Harar, Ethiopia, the group meets Youssef, a local “hyena man” whose relationship with the animals follows Harar’s long history of hyenas scavenging around the city. They wait near ...

Hyenas are frequently vilified and often feared. Hemingway once described the hyena as a stinking, foul devourer of the dead, with jaws that crack the bones the lion leaves. But a new study concludes ...

Hyenas aren’t the most popular animals. Sometimes they kill people’s livestock. They are also thought of as scavengers, with some unappealing eating behaviour. Then there’s their cackling “laugh” and ...

Spotted hyenas are known for hunting (or scavenging) larger mammals such as antelopes and occasionally feed on smaller mammals and reptiles. Being flexible in the choice of prey is a strategy of ...

The author, giving a hyena a little nighttime snack. For much of my life, despite hours of Animal Planet, my primary conception of hyenas came from The Lion King. Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed made hyenas ...