Lewis Gordon Pugh

Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water.

British Environmentalist

Adam F. Goldberg

I wasn't a sweet kid. I was an instigator and provoked everyone with my goofy hyena cackle, loving every minute of the drama I could create.

American Producer

D. H. Lawrence

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

English Writer

Louis Leakey

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

British Scientist

Bob Hope

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

American Comedian

Henry Rollins

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

American Musician

Bob Newhart

No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.

Phyllis Diller

My father used to call me the laughing hyena.

Hyenas are scavengers but also hunt, debunking the myth they only eat leftovers.

Animal Behavior

Hyenas are known for vocalizations that sound like human laughter, which can be eerie.

Distinctive Sounds

In some cultures, hyenas symbolize greed or unscrupulous behavior, often in stories.

Cultural Symbolism

 that's not good at all that's a shame because they just plucked up the courage to come right up to the camera so the camera did give us the opportunity to find out a bit more about them i think from our point of view what's gonna be interesting is you know will these be the hyenas of the future that might visit our waterhole

Young Hyena Breaks...

 taken away from them. It's such a shame, but I guess it's the only way that we're kind of working towards to be able to save them and let them live a normal life. Do rhinos have predators? Yes, they do have predators, kind of all the major predators. They have the lions, hyenas.

Do Rhinos Eat People? PIPE...

 And I'd love to be able to tell you that the reason for a lion attacking a hyena is simply to defend its meal, but you know what? Truth is, lions are pretty brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything, whether it's a predator or otherwise.

Eternal Adversaries:...

 that's part of this claim I knew male hyenas had it tough but I didn't realize it was quite that tough on them I kind of feel sorry for them it's hard to believe a helpless newborn cub outranks even the oldest male in the clan with a ranking system like this

Female Dominance Over...

 wild hyenas are notoriously difficult to observe so we're going to draw them in with sound so what we are setting up right now is something called a call up and using these speakers in a wee laptop we have we've got recordings of lions and hyenas

Hair-Raising Hyena...

 full of the animals that used to live hippos, rhinos, elephants, hyenas and lions. What rewilding reintroduces, alongside the missing animals and plants, is that rare species called hope. It tells us that ecological change

From the top of the food...

 surrounding these misunderstood animals and explore some of the more positive character traits of the spotted hyena do females always lead their clan and what is it about hyenas that has allowed them to thrive

Female Hyenas are Queens...

 Horses' hearing is very important. It's almost more important than their eyesight. Over here, Tommy's got what you call the heart position. He's working the leg. You see the string tendon from the hyena,

The genius puppetry...

 elephants on earth keystone populations of lion leopard hyena wild dog giraffe buffalo and cheetah depend on africa's next unesco world heritage site but why why do we risk our lives every year to

Mapping wilderness PIPE...

 waste the scraps are carried off by ants this hyena wants to indulge in another favorite pastime the dust bath but it's chosen a location a little too nearer mother Jacqueline or pups