The striped hyena is the smallest of the hyena subspecies and the only one found outside Africa. Unlike its larger spotted ...

All species have evolved with competition, and the five species of large African carnivore—the lion, spotted hyena (hereafter hyena), wild dog, leopard, and cheetah—are perfect examples of this ...

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But in over 10,000 recordings of wildlife on the African savannah, 95 percent of the species observed responded with far more terror to the sound of an entirely different beast. This animal isn't even ...

The annual Great Migration of millions of wildebeest and zebras across the plains of the Serengeti is one of the world’s ...

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The world transforms after dark. Streets fill with different sounds, shadows create mysterious stories, and destinations ...

Gazing in that mirror, he committed to art in an instant, and just as swiftly all else was stripped away: his scholarship, ...

The idea was that wolves, in the absence of hunting, ceased to perceive humans as a threat and felt encouraged to approach ...

If you thought laughter was just a human trait, you couldn’t be more wrong. Many animals have their own unique ways of expressing joy.

A chat with former Halo Wars creator James Miller about his new space 4X, which strikes a careful balance between realism and ...