Imagine a mistake so staggering, so profoundly overlooked, it persisted for four agonizing years. Picture a team, dedicated and hopeful, scratching their heads in utter confusion, completely blind to ...

You think you know what challenges lie ahead. You prepare for the impossible, for rare species, for the delicate dance of nature. But sometimes, nature throws a curveball so absurd, it makes even the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In January, Hattiesburg Zoo officials held a gender reveal for its spotted hyena cub Kito. Less than a year later the zoo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Hattiesburg Zoo announced the arrival of a new spotted hyena cub on June 12, born to parents Pili and Niru. Born on June 7, ...

Males that stay at home are not second-class males but can breed as successfully as their more adventurous competitors that leave home, a new long-term study on spotted hyenas shows. Males that stay ...

In most mammals, males disperse to a new group after reaching sexual maturity. Dispersal often entails costs and is risky. New results from spotted hyenas show that males from the same birth group -- ...

Males that don't leave home are not second-class, but can breed as successfully as their more adventurous competitors that leave home, according to a new long-term study on spotted hyenas. The results ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The Hattiesburg Zoo’s one-year-old spotted hyena, Kito, is leaving the Hub City for a new home in the Midwest. Kito is being moved to the Rolling Hills Zoo in Salina, Kan., ...

The Hattiesburg Zoo announced the arrival of a new spotted hyena cub on June 12, born to parents Pili and Niru. Born on June 7, the cub and its mother Pili are doing well. The cub weighs a healthy ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - For the third time in three years, the keepers of the hyena exhibit at the Hattiesburg Zoo are handing out cigars. The zoo announced Wednesday that a hyena cub was born ...