Proteles lalandii, Print, The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is an insectivorous mammal, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means earth-wolf in Afrikaans and Dutch. It is also called maanhaar-jackal (Afrikaans for mane-jackal), ant hyena or civet hyena, based on its habit of secreting substances from its anal gland, a characteristic shared with the African civet. The aardwolf is in the same family as the hyena. Unlike many of its relatives in the order Carnivora, the aardwolf doesn't hunt large animals. It eats insects and their larvae, mainly termites, one aardwolf can lap up as many

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