Decoding The Hyena's Laugh

Sure, hyenas laugh. But did you know they groan, giggle and whoop too? Researchers at UC Berkeley have been listening to the calls of a colony of hyenas in the Berkeley hills and just released a paper with clues to their meaning. Linda Wertheimer talks with one of the researchers, professor of psychology Frederic Theunissen.

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