Spotted hyena clans flip the script on mammalian power: here, dominance is inherited, alliances matter most and females rule ...

Meet the latest African garbage collection team: a clan of hyenas! New research has shown that scavengers, such as the ...

Urban scavengers like spotted hyenas are preventing more than 1,000 metric tons of carbon emissions annually in Ethiopia's ...

Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across West Africa. Yet in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, the famously spotted feline appears to be doing rather well—surprisingly, given the reserve ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

There are many types of hyenas and a couple of hands full of wild dogs. But today we’re focusing on the most prominent of the lot: the sly spotted hyena vs. the ruthless African wild dog. Do they have ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This particular hyena, Sauqué and coauthors ...