hyena

After the vessel transporting his family from India to Canada sinks, Pi escapes to a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a tiger—and his situation gets more complicated with each passing day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Rare hyena behaviours have been caught on camera, including a mother-to-be trying to steal food from wild dogs and outsmarting rivals by hiding a stolen carcass underwater to mask its scent.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025

Marin, who would end up voicing a hyena in the 1994 animated film, makes another braying donkey noise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025

While female-dominated hyena societies may not strike some as technically "queer," the same cannot be said of the countless male lions who spend most of their time in all-male groups called coalitions.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024

The hyena came to within fifteen feet of me.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

It follows four rival families of lions, leopards, hyenas and wild dogs as they compete for dominance, with all the shifting alliances, betrayals and power struggles of a prestige drama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

In drought-hit northeastern Kenya, villagers have been forced to drag their dead livestock to distant fields for burning to keep the stench of death and scavenging hyenas away from their homes.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Other coprolites contained bones chewed up by predators that, like today's hyenas, crushed bones to obtain salts and marrow.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

A few other studies have used an index similar to the human adverse childhood experiences score with wild primates and hyenas, with largely similar results.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2024

Silencing myself, when I’ve so often fought to be heard against people like Missus Wilhelmina and Anise Fowler and her hyenas.

From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender