The aardwolf is in the same family as the hyenas.

The aardwolf is the only surviving species in the mammalian subfamily Protelinae.

The aardwolf is usually classified with the Hyaenidae, though it was formerly placed into the family Protelidae.

An aardwolf is about 55 to 80 centimeters long, excluding its bushy tail about 20 to 30 cm long, and one stands about 40 to 50 cm tall at the shoulders.

The adult aardwolf is primarily solitary while foraging for food, necessary because of the scarcity and homogeneous distribution of their insect prey.

However, in some areas the aardwolf is hunted for its fur.

The aardwolf can trace its lineage directly back to Plioviverrops 15 million years ago, and is the only survivor of the dog-like hyena lineage.

In other languages, other species may simply be termed " small spotted hyena ", such as in Swahili, where the spotted hyena is termed fisi and the aardwolf fisi ndogo.

The aardwolf looks somewhat like a very small Striped Hyena.

Of the dog-like hyena lineage, only the insectivorous aardwolf survived, while the bone-crushing hyenas ( whose extant members are the spotted, brown and striped hyena ) became the undisputed top scavengers of Eurasia and Africa.

A comprehensive list of the animal types found in Tsavo East Park includes the aardwolf, yellow baboon, bat, cape buffalo, bushbaby, bushbuck, caracal, African wildcat, cheetah, African Civet, dik-dik, African hunting dog, African dormouse, Blue Duiker, bush duiker, Red duiker, eland, African elephant, bat-eared fox, greater galago, gazelle, large-spotted genet, small-spotted genet, gerenuk, giraffe, African hare, springhare, Coke's hartebeest, hunter hartebeest, East African hedgehog, spotted hyena, striped hyena, rock hyrax, tree hyrax, impala, black-backed jackal, side-striped jackal, klipspringer, Lesser Kudu, leopard, lion, banded mongoose, dwarf mongoose, Egyptian Mongoose, marsh mongoose, slender mongoose, white-tailed mongoose, black faced vervet monkey, Sykes ' monkey, fringe-eared oryx, clawless otter, ground pangolin, crested porcupine, cane rat, giant rat, naked mole rat, ratel, bohor reedbuck, black rhinoceros, serval, spectacled elephant shrew, bush squirrel, East African red squirrel, striped ground squirrel, unstriped ground squirrel, suni, warthog, waterbuck, common zebra and Grevy's zebra.

Unlike its relatives, the aardwolf does not hunt large animals ; 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 southern Africa-these are open lands covered with stunted trees and shrubs.

An adult aardwolf usually weighs between nine and 14 kilograms.

The teeth and skull of the aardwolf are similar to those of the hyena, though its cheek teeth are specialised for eating insects.

As the aardwolf ages, it will normally lose some of its teeth, though this has little impact on their feeding habits due to the softness of the insects that they eat.

The aardwolf has two glands at its rear end that secrete a musky fluid for marking territory and for communicating with other aardwolves.

The aardwolf lives on open, dry plains and bushland, avoiding mountainous areas.

By night, an aardwolf can consume up to 200, 000 harvester termites using its sticky, long tongue.

Both species are smaller than the spotted hyena but larger than the aardwolf.

Skull of an aardwolf.

The aardwolf uses its canine teeth in self defence and occasionally in digging, and accordingly the canines have not been greatly reduced.

Many myrmecophagous mammals, such as the aardwolf, anteaters, and pangolin have either no teeth, or, in cases like the aardwolf, have large diastemas between their sparse teeth.

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eu: Proteles cristata

There are two subspecies: Proteles cristatus cristatus of Southern Africa and Proteles cristatus septentrionalis of East Africa.

*** Proteles (= Geocyon ; Pleistocene to Recent of Africa )

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# 1840, Dogs, Canidae or Genus Canis of Authors, including The Genera Hyaena and Proteles, Vol.

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