A whole clan of hyenas can eat the entire body of their prey, including the skeleton, bones, teeth, and horns, savoring until the very last bite.

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Hyenas are known for eating their prey alive to prevent their kill from being poached by lions or other large predators—and they’re also known to scavenge the kills of lions.

Hyenas' eating habits also spread the nutrients around in another way, as they leave behind a lot of smaller splintered bones that creatures like birds take advantage of, according to other research.

Knowing that hyenas scavenge from human garbage, Yirga and his colleagues investigated whether human diet changes influence what hyenas eat. They focused on Lent, collecting hyena droppings from ...

You could say this snake had the last laugh: Researchers in southwestern Kenya recently stumbled across a 13-foot-long African rock python (Python sebae) that was swallowing a 150-pound hyena ...

Humans aren't the only ones who give up certain foods for Lent. In the 55 days before Easter in Ethiopia, hyenas are forced to turn from scavenging to hunting to make up for Christians' fasting ...