AARDWOLF

Aardwolf

The aardwolf is a small, insectivorous mammal, native to East Africa and Southern Africa. Its name means "earth wolf" in the Afrikaans / Dutch language. It is also called "maanhaar jackal", or civet hyena, based on the secretions from their anal glands. The aardwolf is in the same family as the hyenas. Unlike its relatives in the order Carnivora, the aardwolf does not hunt large animals, or even eat meat on a regular basis; instead it eats insects, mainly termites - one aardwolf can eat about 200,000 termites during a single night by using its long, sticky tongue to capture them. The aardwolf lives in the scrublands of eastern and ...

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aardwolf

Noun

  1. The nocturnal, insectivorous, mammal, , of southern and eastern Africa, related to and resembling the hyena.


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