hyena
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A window fell out of the hyena enclosure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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
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
One further matter: I was followed from Novgorod by a man whose dæmon was a hyena.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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
In five days the populations of orangutans, zebras, hyenas, rats, flies and cockroaches had been wiped out.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
