hyena
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A window fell out of the hyena enclosure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
The brown hyena, the rarest of all hyena species, is primarily nocturnal and tends to live a solitary life.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 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 continued to stuff herself until her stomach was ready to burst.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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
Season 2 promotes Moore, still riding a career renaissance, from an underutilized background player to the woman charged with keeping the hyenas at bay.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025
"We never had wild animal attacks before... after prosopis spread, lions, hyenas, wild cats and foxes invaded our villages," Mohammed said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025
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
You probably think of hyenas as skulking, cowardly scavengers, waiting for scraps left by the lions.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
