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 ...

Scientists observed spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) playing in the wild and found that their precise, sophisticated ...

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 vocalization used by spotted hyenas (Crocuta ...

To human ears, the laughs of individual hyenas in a pack all sound the same: high-pitched and staccato, eerie and maniacal. But every hyena makes a different call that encodes information about its ...

Sure, hyenas laugh. But did you know they groan, giggle and whoop too? Researchers at UC Berkeley have been listening to the calls of a colony of hyenas in the Berkeley hills and just released a paper ...

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 ...

Spotted hyenas grunt and growl. But you know what they're famous for. [Hyena sounds.] So what's all the laughing about? Well, field researchers have noticed that groups of hyenas tend to giggle around ...

April 23, 2009 -- Deteriorating screws in bridges, fish that listen in the dark, medical devices that use sound to treat disease, the detected comeback of a long-gone whale, the sound of hyenas, ...

Being able to count helps spotted hyenas decide to fight or flee, according to new research. When animals fight, the larger group tends to win. Researchers have now shown that hyenas listen to the ...

In popular films and stories, hyenas are usually portrayed simply as hunters and scavengers, but in reality, they actually spend a great deal of time ...