All About Hyenas
We study hyenas because they are so fascinating! For comprehensive information about hyenas, visit the IUCN Hyaenidae website
View our growing gallery of hyena images
Other sites about hyenas
Account of the Spotted Hyena on the Animal Diversity Web from the University of Michigan
Crocuta crocuta specimen record in the NSF digital morphology database, digimorph.org
What others have written about our research
"Rebranding the Hyena" by John Pickrell, Science News, Vol. 161, No. 17 from Science News, Week of April 27, 2002 (with a Hyena on the cover). The article includes some nice photos by former PhD student Anne Engh.
Carl Zimmer wrote a feature in the New York Times Science section the March 4 2008 edition
Steve Kemper of Smithsonian magazine wrote a feature article for the May 2008 edition.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hyena.html
Blog entries: notes from the field
- Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls, Wildebeest—it Tolls for Thee
- Update
- Important life lesson:
- Hyenas vs. lions
- You want more babies? You got it.
- Babysitting in the bush
- A visit from home!
- Meet Murphy, Our Alpha Female
- How hyenas relieve that hard-to-reach itch
- The Dominance Hierarchy
- Dominant and Subordinate Cubs
- The cast of (human) characters
- A Day in the Life of a Fisi Camper
- Ugali
- Individually ID-ing hyenas
- The Other Residents of Our Camp
- BBC comes to Kenya
- Juvenile hyenas at play
- Welcoming the wildebeest!
- Returning to the Mara
- New research station
- Moss guards her dead cub
- Lion-hyena fight photographed by MSU student Brittany Gunther