For hyenas, there's no 'I' in clan
When it comes to advancing social status, it's not what you know, it's who you know—for humans and spotted hyenas alike.
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News tagged with hyenas
Hyena population recovers slowly from a disease epidemic
Infectious diseases can substantially reduce the size of wildlife populations, thereby affecting both the dynamics of ecosystems and biodiversity. Predicting the long-term consequences of epidemics is thus essential for conservation. ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 20, 2018
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X-rays show how periods of stress changed an ice age hyena to the bone
A few hundred thousand years ago during Earth's most recent ice age, a beefy subspecies of spotted hyena that was more than double the weight of its modern relative roamed Eurasia's snow-glazed terrain. Until their extinction ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 14, 2018
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Spotted hyena returns to Gabon park after 20 years: researchers
A spotted hyena has been sighted in a Gabon national park for the first time in 20 years, conservationists said Friday, the latest large predator to have returned to a region where many had gone locally extinct.
Ecology
Jan 20, 2018
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Spotted hyenas rarely die from disease—scientists set out to discover why
Ol-konôî, the Maa or Maasai word for hyena, means "to eat greedily" or "the gluttonous one". It shows a not so subtle disdain many communities have for spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta). It's true that hyenas scramble ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 17, 2017
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Mobs are, sometimes, good
Submitting to mob mentality is always a risky endeavor, for humans or hyenas. A new Michigan State University study focusing on the latter, though, shows that when it comes to battling for food, mobbing can be beneficial.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2016
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Dino dinner, dead or alive
When asked to think of meat-eating dinosaurs we usually conjure images of voracious predators chasing down helpless prey. These visions are no doubt inspired by the depiction of species such as Tyrannosaurs rex and Velociraptor ...
Archaeology
Apr 14, 2016
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Researchers reconsider roles of second-rank hyena males
Males that don't leave home are not second-class, but can breed as successfully as their more adventurous competitors that leave home, according to a new long-term study on spotted hyenas. The results from a research team ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2016
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Adversity forges unlikely friendship between hyenas, wolves
It is often true in life that adversity makes humans more likely to lean on one another.
Plants & Animals
Mar 17, 2016
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It's best to make friends of friends—even the spotted hyena knows that
Bonding with a friend of a friend is something most humans gravitate toward naturally, or at least Facebook likes to think so every time it suggests friends for you to "friend."
Plants & Animals
May 15, 2015
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