A rare hyena wandering through the skeletal remains of a ghost town has earned South African wildlife photographer Wim van ...

The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena bringing new life to the Namib Desert.

A brown hyena standing beside the ruins of an abandoned diamond mining settlement has earned wildlife photographer Wim van ...

Wim van der Heever has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award for a picture that he says took him 10 years to ...

They live in groups that can grow to more than 100, but within their clans there is an order, and the females are in charge, say University of Pennsylvania biologists. Earlier studies have looked at ...

The striped hyena was eaten up by the villagers of Bijil Kuttai near Bhavanisagar in Oct 2017, when it strayed into the village. While nobody expected the hyena to live, STR veterinary officer Dr K ...

Status among hyenas sounds like a laughing matter. Spotted hyenas may not be amused, but they do make noises that to human ears sound like laughter. Biologists refer to this classic hyena laugh, a ...

High-ranking mothers provide their sons with a privileged upbringing and this increases their son's success after leaving home. This was now demonstrated for the first time in a social mammal, the ...

Is there any other mammal that people find as despicable as the hyena? If a creature is furry and nurses its young, usually we’re willing to admit some mammalian fellow feeling. Among furred creatures ...

This is the fourth in my series of "How to Do Life" fables. Like most laughing hyenas, Sy was born in a litter of two. His littermate started laughing, okay, screeching, almost as soon as she emerged ...