Spotted hyenas, the social, carnivorous creatures often referred to as "laughing hyenas," live across Africa and east to India. Their laughing sound, however, "has nothing to do with hyenas having a ...

Hearing an eerie, laugh-like sound coming from the backyard may sound like the beginning of a scary movie, but for one Los Angeles resident, it ended in one of the most memorable wildlife encounters ...

Dec. 4, 2005 — -- Researchers at the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service in Washington state say sometimes a bark is just a bark -- but a long, loud panting sound has real meaning.

For many years, psychologists and behavioral biologists agreed that laughter was a unique emotional expression found only in humans. However, as the study of animal emotions expanded this idea was ...

Laughter is often called the most human sound. It carries joy, relief, connection, and sometimes even healing. For centuries, ...

It's a common sound in the Australian bush, starting up just around daylight: the laughing call of the kookaburra. In the group captured in this field recording by wildlife expert David Stewart, four ...