Spotted hyenas, the social, carnivorous creatures often referred to as "laughing hyenas," live across Africa and east to India. Their laughing sound, however, "has nothing to do with hyenas having a ...

Sure, hyenas laugh. But did you know they groan, giggle and whoop too? Researchers at UC Berkeley have been listening to the calls of a colony of hyenas in the Berkeley hills and just released a paper ...

Status among hyenas sounds like a laughing matter. Spotted hyenas may not be amused, but they do make noises that to human ears sound like laughter. Biologists refer to this classic hyena laugh, a ...

April 23, 2009 -- Deteriorating screws in bridges, fish that listen in the dark, medical devices that use sound to treat disease, the detected comeback of a long-gone whale, the sound of hyenas, ...

Hyenas use a "laughing language" to communicate with each other, scientists have learned. The animals are famous for their manic giggling, especially around a kill. But although they might appear to ...

Researchers have begun to unravel the information and social content present in the hyena's famed laugh, which they say is only used in times of conflict. The pitch and variability of the giggles may ...