Meanings of spotted hyena in English

It's the birth of a spotted hyena, however, that is particularly bizarre.

The female spotted hyena urinates, copulates and gives birth through her clitoris.

Least of all the biggest and baddest of them all-thespotted hyena.

The lion is more than 90 percent human, and so is the spotted hyena.

But the spotted hyena is a fearsome predator.

One huge spotted hyena was more than persistent.

A research group, looking into female-led spotted hyena societies, captured their unique group behaviour in these photographs.

So unique, in fact, that for centuries people assumed the spotted hyena had to be a hermaphrodite.

There are also packs of black-backed jackals, spotted hyena and a variety of antelope species, including the nyala.

I'm a spotted hyena, a girl.

The looker wasted no second glance on the rude trousers of spotted hyena skin or the big lean body of the castaway.

The smallest spotted hyena clans are about the same size as a big lion pride or big wild dog or wolf pack.

On the outside, male and female genitalia look so similar that for many years the spotted hyena was thought to be a hermaphrodite.

In a short time we caught sight of a gigantic tiger-wolf, or spotted hyena, sitting under a bush, and growling fiercely at us.

If you saw a spotted hyena loping back to its den with clearly distended mammary glands, you would probably guess it was a female.

The mechanics of spotted hyena sex are so tricky that females are able to resist unwanted advances: copulation requires full cooperation; rape is impossible.