hyena
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After the vessel transporting his family from India to Canada sinks, Pi escapes to a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a tiger—and his situation gets more complicated with each passing day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
A brown hyena standing beside the ruins of an abandoned diamond mining settlement has earned wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
This is a musical that treasures goofy imperfection, a scene where McInnerny does a funny little tap dance, or the joy in Shannon’s hyena cackle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
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
“Can we go through, then?” said Malcolm, who could hear the hyena again, even closer.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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It follows four rival families of lions, leopards, hyenas and wild dogs as they compete for dominance, with all the shifting alliances, betrayals and power struggles of a prestige drama.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
In drought-hit northeastern Kenya, villagers have been forced to drag their dead livestock to distant fields for burning to keep the stench of death and scavenging hyenas away from their homes.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
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
Silencing myself, when I’ve so often fought to be heard against people like Missus Wilhelmina and Anise Fowler and her hyenas.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
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