Females avoid incest by causing male relatives to leave home

...rom the IZW added: The results of the study were only possible because we were able to monitor the decisions made by male hyenas in all eight resident hyena groups on the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater. Through this research we could genetically determine paternity for most offspring produced in a 10-year ...

Hyena in Biological News

Laughing hyenas, wailing levees, the sound of cheese and blaring bagpipes

...itched and staccato, eerie and maniacal. But every hyena makes a different call that encodes information ab...e, France. They have developed a way to identify a hyena by picking out specific features of its giggle. The hyena does not laugh when it is having a good time. Rath...

Killer whales, blind bats, discriminating dolphins, mating birds

...s Marine Mammals 2) Birds Changing Their Tune 3) hyena Giggles and Groans 4) Chinese Frogs Go Ultrasonic... 2:00 p.m. on Monday, June 30 in room 342B. 3) hyena GIGGLES AND GROANS. A hyena's laugh might be le...properties of various vocalizations of the spotted hyena ( Crocuta crocuta ), also known as the "laughing h...

Hyena mothers give their cubs a helpful dose of hormones

... Scientists have discovered that a dominant hyena puts her cubs on the road to success before they are born by passing on hig...racteristics that elevate the chances for life-success in both sexes. In hyena packs, male-female social roles are reversed from what is normally found in...

Neandertal femur suggests competition with hyenas and a shift in landscape use

...had already begun prior to the transition to the Upper Paleolithic, prior to any appearance of modern humans in Europe. In addition, the cave was a hyena den at about the same time that the humans lived in it, the authors say. Archeological evidence indicates that humans processed carcasses of the same ...