Sights & Sounds

Spotted hyena clan

Wild Population
27-47k
Protection Status
Least Concern
Population Trend
Decreasing
Best Habitat
Savanna & woodland
A Brief Glimpse
A hyena clan gathers like trouble with teeth: sloped backs, amber eyes, jaws built for endings, their shadows circling the edge of a kill or a moonlit track. Their sound is the bush at its most unsettling — whoops rising into the night, giggles that are not laughter, cackles, growls, bone cracking — a chorus of appetite, intelligence, and disorder.
Fun Fact

Did you know?

Hyena clans are ruled by females — and their famous “laugh” is not comedy at all, but a complex social signal full of rank, tension and excitement.

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