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Commonly stereotyped as the lowly cretins of the African plains, spotted (“laughing”) hyenas are surprisingly intelligent. From wikipedia: “Like primates, spotted hyenas use multiple sensory modalities, recognise individual conspecifics, are conscious that some clan-mates may be more reliable than others, recognise 3rd party kin and rank relationships among clan-mates, and adaptively use this knowledge during social decision making. Also, like cercopithecine primates, dominance ranks in hyena societies are not correlated with size or aggression, but with ally networks.”

Commonly stereotyped as the lowly cretins of the African plains, spotted (“laughing”) hyenas are surprisingly intelligent.

From wikipedia: “Like primates, spotted hyenas use multiple sensory modalities, recognise individual conspecifics, are conscious that some clan-mates may be more reliable than others, recognise 3rd party kin and rank relationships among clan-mates, and adaptively use this knowledge during social decision making. Also, like cercopithecine primates, dominance ranks in hyena societies are not correlated with size or aggression, but with ally networks.”

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