Hyenas - Sociable, and Smart

Some of my friends are graduate students studying Hyenas in the Department of Zoology at MSU. Today an article related to their work was published in the New York Times. Their advisor, Dr. Kay Holekamp, has concluded that the lives of spotted hyenas, share some profound similarities with our own. In both species, a complex social world has driven the evolution of a big, complex brain...

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