NAIROBI, Kenya – The tiny hyena sucking on Dr. Kariuki Edward's gloved finger will be able to bite through steel and crack open bones when it grows up. But for now the male hyena cub and his two ...

Hyenas might be the most misunderstood animal – Are they dogs? Big cats? Evil, trouble-making sidekicks? (Thanks, Lion King!) Dr. Christine Wilkinson relates to this ambiguous perception as a ...

Hyenas are often the forgotten carnivore of conservation work, but Born Free is stepping up to help improve attitudes towards ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Game ranger and documentary filmmaker Kim Wolhuter (65) sits on his Toyota off-road vehicle. Wolhuter has an unusual hobby. He ...

A hyena has mauled a 15-year-old boy at a camp in South Africa's Kruger National Park, sinking its teeth into the youth's face as he slept in a tent. Erco Janse van Rensburg is in the intensive care ...

Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across West Africa. Yet in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, the famously spotted feline appears to be doing rather well—surprisingly, given the reserve ...

A five-year-old child has been mauled to death by a hyena in Kenya, the East African country's wildlife service said Thursday, promising that it was tackling the "rising hyena attacks". The Barron's ...

As night falls over the ancient walled city of Harar, something unusual happens just beyond the gates. One by one, wild ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Marauding hyenas killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan capital, officials said Tuesday, prompting hundreds of students from the school to block ...