You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is a species of hyena that does not hunt large animals, but instead eats about 250,000 termites each night!
The aardwolf sounds sort of similar to the aardvark, in that they are both mostly nocturnal and eat termites (though I think aardvarks also eat ants). Thank you for bringing this interesting animal to our attention!
Yeah, they are a lot like each other, but they are in no way related to each other when looking at phylogenetics. As far as I understook, aard means earth in Afrikaans.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment, @calathea!