Imagine a mistake so staggering, so profoundly overlooked, it persisted for four agonizing years. Picture a team, dedicated ...

SAPPORO , Japan, Oct. 2 (UPI) --The Maruyama Zoo in Japan said zookeepers discovered repeated attempts to breed their two spotted hyenas were doomed from the start -- both animals are males. The zoo ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - For the third time in three years, the keepers of the hyena exhibit at the Hattiesburg Zoo are handing out cigars. The zoo announced Wednesday that a hyena cub was born ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The Hattiesburg Zoo announced the birth of two hyena cubs this past Friday evening. The zoo said the cubs’ mother, Pili, is doing well and has taken on her mothering role ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In January, Hattiesburg Zoo officials held a gender reveal for its spotted hyena cub Kito. Less than a year later the zoo ...

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. Males that stay ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WHLT) – Hattiesburg Zoo’s young male hyena, Kuma, will be relocated to Turtle Back Zoo in New Jersey. Kuma was born September 25, 2024, at the Hattiesburg Zoo to mother Pili and ...

Males that don't leave home are not second-class, but can breed as successfully as their more adventurous competitors that leave home, according to a new long-term study on spotted hyenas. The results ...

In most mammals, males disperse to a new group after reaching sexual maturity. Dispersal often entails costs and is risky. New results from spotted hyenas show that males from the same birth group -- ...

Should I stay or should I go? For a young male spotted hyena, the decision to stay or disperse from his clan depends on his mating prospects: If there are more young and willing females back home than ...