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 ...

“I’m constantly eating raw meat and stealing lion cubs in my private life. It was a smooth transition.” Andre is joking, of course. The comedian doesn’t really steal lion cubs when the cameras aren’t ...

K.N. Balraj’s 40 cartoons, on display at the Cartoon Gallery, are not about politics or social issues, but about animals and birds. They are no less satirical than political cartoons, though. The ...

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 ...

Status among hyenas sounds like a laughing matter. Spotted hyenas may not be amused, but they do make noises that to human ears sound like laughter. Biologists refer to this classic hyena laugh, a ...

Hyenas use a "laughing language" to communicate with each other, scientists have learned. The animals are famous for their manic giggling, especially around a kill. But although they might appear to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...