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 ...

One tool that we used a lot on the hyena film was a 5 axis gimbal stabilised camera rig, mounted onto a Land Rover. It was useful for a lot of shots, but can come into its own during a hunt ...

A pack of hyenas can entirely devour a 180 kilogram zebra in less than 25 minutes, leaving behind only bloodstained earth, with not even grim pickings for vultures and ants.

A pack of hyenas can entirely devour a 180 kilogram zebra in less than 25 minutes, leaving behind only bloodstained earth, with not even grim pickings for vultures and ants.

“ [H]e noted that these [hyena] ‘zebra hunting parties’ formed long before any zebra had been sighted, such that the hyenas had somehow communicated to one another ahead of time that they ...

Instead, however, the zoologists discovered that hyenas started traveling in mid-sized groups and started to avoid hunting zebra and kudu in favor of feasting on elephant and giraffe carcasses.