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 ...

Their high-pitched menacing cackle is nothing to boast about. But it seems that is exactly what the hyena is doing when its distinctive laugh echoes across the savannah. Scientists have found a ...

A Hyena's giggle is not actually laughter, but a sound of frustration. New research found a way to distinguish individual hyenas based on the peculiarities of their, well, let's call them fighting ...

When you think of a hyena, you make think of their signature laughter. But not all hyenas laugh. In fact, their laughter is actually a vocalization of distress, often used to signal threats or attacks ...

Confounding their usual cinematic portrayal as incessantly giggling numskulls, hyenas turn out to rank among the savvier characters on the African savanna. A new study finds that wild spotted hyenas ...

January Blues are clearly unheard of in South Africa's Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, judging by the look of this hyena. The series of images show the wild animal breaking out into what appears to be ...

Welcome back to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Linda Wertheimer. Now, even if you've never heard a laughing hyena in the wild, you might recognize this hyena. Mr. CHEECH MARIN (Actor): (as Banzai) It's ...

Over the last few episodes, I debunked the three big myths about the spotted hyenas. These myths are: that they are some kind of dog, when they're actually a kind of cat; that they have the most ...