Related Clues:

• Creature with urge to break into short laugh
• Only half laugh, hiding desire to be a laugher?
• African canine
• Laughing animal?
• Animal hospital burning -- initial hint of arson?
• Dog-like African carnivore
• Cousin of an aardwolf
• Member of a den
• Steed, say, starts to stagger crazily first and totter
• Serengeti laugher
• Doglike laugher
• Cheetah chaser
• Slinking carnivore
• Aardwolf cousin
• Given scare, possibly, one escapes from vulture, say