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 ...

Over the course of a year, the researchers observed how 62 spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) from two clans in Kenya interacted with the box.

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 ...

While females “often had power over males,” it was not exclusive or consistent. Of the 1,786 conflicts recorded, 61.5% were won by females compared with 38.5% won by males.

The skull of a spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), photographed at the AMNH's "Extreme Mammals" exhibit. There was something strange about the assemblage of Homo erectus fossils found at Zhoukoudian ...