Laughing hyenas, wailing levees, the sound of cheese and blaring bagpipes Highlights of the 157th ASA Meeting to be held May 18-22 in Portland, Ore. Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

Well, the real hyena laugh actually sounds a lot like that. (Soundbite of hyena laughing) WERTHEIMER: And new research from the University of California in Berkeley suggests that the hyena's ...

carnivorous creatures often referred to as "laughing hyenas," live across Africa and east to India. Their laughing sound, however, "has nothing to do with hyenas having a good time," says Sarah ...

I don’t know all about the exact onomatopoeia of a hyena’s laugh. Maybe it’s hee-hee-ha-ha? One thing I’m sure of is that they’re actually very complex animals. Especially females, but we’ll get to ...

Subordinate individuals made noises that were more varied and higher in pitch. {{ video="LS_090501_hyena-laugh" title="Hyena Giggles: No Laughing Matter" caption="Though it may sound like a ...

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 ...

The other species, Aardwolf, striped hyena and the brown hyena, cannot laugh but have other distinct vocalization sounds. For ...

But although they might appear to treat the business of survival as a joke, the laughing sounds have a serious purpose. New research has shown that hyena laughter encodes complex information about ...

The giggling sounds of a hyena contain important information about the animal's status, say scientists. In the first study to decipher the hyena's so-called "laugh", they have shown that the pitch ...