. Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : From observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan . Natural history; Indigenous peoples; Ethnology. 336 EASTERN ETHIOPIA XXVII the walls aucl pave the Hoors of their huts with termite earth. The only sure way of destroying an ant-hill is to dig it up and hnd the (jueen or queens. If a queen be left the insects rebuild the nest. A curious animal known as the Aard-Wolf lives on decomposing carcases and termites. In shape and colour it resembles the liytena. During the day the Aard-Wolf sleeps in the unused holes of the antbear, and comes o
. Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : From observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan . Natural history; Indigenous peoples; Ethnology. 336 EASTERN ETHIOPIA XXVII the walls aucl pave the Hoors of their huts with termite earth. The only sure way of destroying an ant-hill is to dig it up and hnd the (jueen or queens. If a queen be left the insects rebuild the nest. A curious animal known as the Aard-Wolf lives on decomposing carcases and termites. In shape and colour it resembles the liytena. During the day the Aard-Wolf sleeps in the unused holes of the antbear, and comes out at night. When excited or worried in a. Skull of the Aard-Wolf, showing the degenerate condi- tion of the teeth ; the animal lives on termites. (Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.) burrow it emits, like the skunk, an extremely foetid fluid from the anal glands. The crest or mane of hair alone the middle of its back is erected when the animal becomes excited. The feeble condition of the Aard-Wolfs molar teeth correspond to its mode of living, but the strong claws enable it to dig termites out of their nests. Referetices. Drummond, H. ... Tropical Africa. London, 1888. Hayes, A. J TJie Source of the Blue Nile. London, 1905. Smeathman, H. ..." Of the Termites in Africa and other Hot Countries," I'hil. Trans., 1785, LXXL, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936. London : Macmillan and Co. , Limited
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