"After much thought, I can come up with no other animal whose reputation is so at odds with the reality, not even the …"

"Real hyenas, unknown to most of us, are far more diverse and fascinating that the dull, one-dimensional creatures mos…"

"It seems likely that the image of spotted hyenas as "cowardly scavengers" is fundamental to their reputational proble…"

"As several distinguished authors of the present age have undertaken to reconcile the world to the Great Man-Killer of…"

"It was funny to M'Cola [my African guide] to see a hyena shot at close range. There was that comic slap of the bullet…"

"No more than a hyena abandons carrion does a Marxist abandon treason."

"Hyenas are slow in their pace, and altogether inactive; I have often seen a few terriers keep them at bay, and bite t…"

"Feet that make no noise; eyes that can see in the dark; ears that can hear the winds in their lairs, and sharp white …"

"Why we should so despise scavenging is not clear, since it is a lifestyle at which our own ancestors were adept. In a…"

"The Magi have held in the highest admiration the hyaena of all animals, seeing that they have attributed even to an a…"