As darkness falls across Harar, people gather to welcome the city’s carnivorous visitors and see them get their fill.

Giant hyenas went extinct about 500,000 years ago, but were roughly 240 pounds and skilled scavengers like their modern counterparts. “There is a hot scientific debate about the role of scavenging as ...

Prehistoric humans may have been capable of competing with giant hyenas for carcasses abandoned by saber-toothed cats and jaguars hundreds of thousands of years ago. A study published in the journal ...

Hyenas might be the most misunderstood animal – Are they dogs? Big cats? Evil, trouble-making sidekicks? (Thanks, Lion King!) Dr. Christine Wilkinson relates to this ambiguous perception as a ...

Spotted hyenas live in groups that may exceed 100, working together to hunt and raise their young. They're incredibly successful social... When anthropologists work to reconstruct the lives of our own ...

Our ancient human ancestors may have been able to hold their own against large scavengers, such as giant hyenas, according to modelling by European researchers. In the late Early Pleistocene (roughly ...

Worldwide, populations of scavenging animals that feed on rotting carcasses are declining. Scientists are finding that this can seriously hurt... From vultures to hyenas: How scavengers protect human ...

The researchers found lions and hyenas tended to avoid particularly crowded roads, especially during the dry season. Credit: Stephanie Periquet Pearce The researchers found lions and hyenas tended to ...

Who’s stronger? A solitary leopard or cackle of hyenas? And which is best at getting along with humans? University of Copenhagen researchers closely studied this in a large East African natural area ...

In hyena societies, demographic processes -- not status seeking -- account for the majority of hierarchy dynamics and cause an on-average lifetime decline in social hierarchy position. In some ...

Like a scene from a horror movie a village watched in disbelief last week as a 12-year-old was mauled to death by a rogue hyena. The family from Leleshwa village, Ol Moran area of Laikipia tried to ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...