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...Life of Pi” featured a tiger, an orangutan, a hyena, and a zebra. Your upcoming book “Beatrice & Virgil” features a monkey and a donkey. Let’s get real here—do you really want to write or do you just want to open up your own menagerie...

Author: By Anna M. Yeung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Yann Martel | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...England Patriots, the hoodie-wrapped Houdini of the sidelines, dresses down on game days? You should check out his sartorial selections during the week. Before a practice in late November, Belichick is wearing jeans and a ratty gray shirt; it looks as if a dog--and then a hyena--has feasted on his collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parsing the Patriots Paradox | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...Heist of the Hyena Eliot House...

Author: By The crimson arts staff | Title: ARTS FIRST CALENDAR | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...small golden jackal, nipping at the rump of a hyena twice its size, chases the intruder from its territory. Two young lions tear into a still struggling buffalo calf. Such violent scenes are everyday rhythms Among Predators and Prey (Sierra Club Books; 224 pages; $35), the reflections of Wildlife Photographer Hugo van Lawick. The author has a long acquaintance with rough nature: he has lived with East Africa's wild animals for a quarter-century part of the time among chimpanzees with his former wife Jane Goodall. Van Lawick's knowledgeable narrative recalls a life that included a stint covering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pleasures for the Holidays | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...object to your using an elephant's backside to illustrate the Republican Party's fall from grace. It was insulting to elephants, which are intelligent, sensitive and compassionate creatures. A better symbol for the G.O.P. might be the hyena. Opportunistic, hunting alone or in packs, it is ruthless and cunning. I'm confident that this proposed G.O.P. mascot could not possibly offend anyone except, perhaps, hyenas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 6, 2006 | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

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