THIS is the bone-chilling moment a hyena emerges from the bushes holding a severed zebra’s head. In one image, the spotted hyena is covered in blood and looks worn down while holding the zebr… ...

Zebras may not be nearly as sneaky as some people thought. A study casts doubt on the idea that those magnificent stripes are used to hide the horse-like creatures from predators.

The Perfect Hunter By David Levin Posted 08.05.10 NOVA scienceNOW Biologist Christine Drea from Duke University thinks that hyenas' remarkable social intelligence could be the key to their deadly ...

Less than a minute after finding them a lead hyena started trotting, in the distance was a herd of Zebra so we thought this could materialise into something exciting – if we could keep up.

A zebra leaps to freedom after a grueling six-hour truck journey to Kenya's Amboseli National Park. But if all goes to plan, it will soon fall prey to lions or hyenas. Amboseli's zebra and ...

Zebra stripes don't help the animals camouflage themselves from predators like lions and hyenas, a new study suggests. Zebra stripes don't help the animals camouflage themselves from predators ...

Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) could show chimpanzees a thing or two about working together, according to a new study. Hyenas, prodigious hunters, pull down prey together. Christine M. Drea, an ...

They also measured the stripes’ widths and light contrast, or luminance, in order to estimate the maximum distance from which lions, spotted hyenas and zebras could detect stripes, using information ...