Centuries of storytelling paint the four species of hyena as laughing, demonic scavengers. It’s time to set the record straight.
No. It actually felt like a pack of hyenas screaming into your ears with their "laughing" call. It went something like the first ten seconds of the following video (not taken by me), with a rising high pitch at the end. And it echoed around and went on for a whole night, as the ...
When we're laughing, natural killer cells that destroy tumors and viruses increase, as do Gamma-interferon (a disease-fighting protein), T-cells, which are a major part of the immune response, and B-cells, which make disease-destroying antibodies. Laughter may lead to hiccuping and coughing...
hyena packs leave behind little trace of their meal. One of four hyena species, the spotted breed has the strongest jaws in proportion to body size across the entiremammal kingdom. In less than half an hour, a group of them can kill...