hyena
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A window fell out of the hyena enclosure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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
A hyena will drink from water even as it is urinating in it.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
The subjects seem to know the meaning of boundaries, not only regarding the size of their competition or the dangers of lions, hyenas and other potential predators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
"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
The couple also advertised other animals through social media including hyenas, desert lynxes and pumas.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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
It’s an open question as to what hyenas won't eat.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
