Darlington Point's Altina Wildlife Park has announced that its imported African spotted hyena ‘Malika’ has given birth to a ...

The Scientist spoke to hyena researcher Eve Davidian for a broad look at power relationships between male and female mammals ... An example of this trade can be seen in spotted female hyenas, whose ...

What's more, female spotted hyenas are bigger and more aggressive ... "You do not want to be a male hyena," Holekamp says. An hour before dawn, we are bouncing along a track in Masai Mara.

A few kilometres from the Big Cat Live camp was a hyena den whose ... headed by a female. As with elephants, this alpha female is known as the matriarch. Male hyenas rank not just below her ...

There are four species of hyenas, namely, the spotted hyena, the brown hyena ... of up to 80 individuals and is dominated by the alpha female. The social interaction of hyenas is unique among ...