Neandertal femur suggests competition with hyenas and a shift in landscape use
...dern humans in Europe. In addition, the cave was a hyena den at about the same time that the humans lived in it, the authors say. Archeological evidence indicates that humans processed carcasses of the same animals as the hyenas, with some animal bones showing both cut marks from human tools and tooth mark......braska, report that high-ranking, dominant spotted hyena mothers pass to their offspring high levels of cer...dation-funded research spent studying wild spotted hyena populations in Kenya. The paper outlines the first instance where researchers have shown that a fema...Scientists have discovered that a dominant hyena puts her cubs on the road to success before they a...ate the chances for life-success in both sexes. In hyena packs, male-female social roles are reversed from what is normally found in nature--that is, female ...