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 ...

It sounds kind of, you know, low and scary to us, but I think it's not the case for the hyenas. WERTHEIMER: Now, you're a professor of psychology, Professor Theunissen. Could it be that you're ...

Hyenas are known for their vocalisations, which include a range of sounds from growls and grunts to their famous "laugh”. This laughter is used to communicate social status, signal distress, or ...

Identifying Hyenas By Their Giggle Date: April 28, 2009 Source: American Institute of Physics Summary: To human ears, the laughs of individual hyenas in a pack all sound the same: high-pitched and ...

They make this sound when they are excited, but nervous, or when they are submitting to another hyena. Spotted hyenas also make 10 other vocalizations to communicate with their clan.

A Hyena's giggle is not actually laughter, but a sound of frustration. New research found a way to distinguish individual hyenas based on the peculiarities of their, well, let's call them fighting ...

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 their having a ...

[Hyena sounds.] So what's all the laughing about? Well, field researchers have noticed that groups of hyenas tend to giggle around a kill, while they're waiting for their hunk of meat.

Myth: Hyenas are stupid. The Lion King’s hyena trio, Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed, lurk in the shadows of the elephant graveyard.Ed is dim-witted, with unfocused eyes and a floppy tongue, and he gnaws ...

Typically those sounds will bring in quite a lot of hyenas, but this time, for whatever reason, it only brought in one hyena, and that one hyena happened to be Smiley.