Possible Clues:

• Doglike African mammals
• Animals voiced by Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin in 'The Lion King'
• Distinctive-sounding scavengers
• Carrion-feeding carnivores
• Hot option on ballot sheet about new leader is a source of brutish laughter?
• The laughing stock of Africa?
• Relatives of aardwolves
• Doglike mammals
• Wild animals, their howl sounds like laughter
• Has money in Japan for those with beastly laugh