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

Marin, who would end up voicing a hyena in the 1994 animated film, makes another braying donkey noise.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025

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

The ground trembles and clouds of dust swirl as enormous hordes of large animals thunder across the African savanna, cross rivers en masse and are picked off by lions, hyena and crocodiles.

From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2024

After hunting, late at night, the hyena mothers would visit the dens.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall