In this paper, we study r-uniform hypergraphs H without cycles of length less than five, employing the definition of a hypergraph cycle due to Berge. In particular, for r = 3, we show that if H has n vertices and a maximum number of edges, then |H| = 1 6 n + o(n). This also asymptotically determines the generalized Turán number T3(n, 8, 4). Some results are based on our bounds for the maximum s...