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Hyena laughs and giggles decoded

A hyena's 'laugh' contains important information about the animal's status, a study reveals. Ref. Source 3

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Mama’s boys are not losers in spotted hyenas

Males that stay at home are not second-class males but can breed as successfully as their more adventurous competitors that leave home, a new long-term study on spotted hyenas shows. Ref. Source 2r.

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How female hyaenas came to dominate males. In most animal societies, members of one sex dominate those of the other. Is this, as widely believed, an inevitable consequence of a disparity in strength and ferocity between males and females? Not necessarily. A new study on wild spotted hyaenas shows that in this social carnivore, females dominate males because they can rely on greater social support than males, not because they are stronger or more competitive in any other individual attribute. Source 7u.