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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!
Great post.
I've seen one of these in the wild in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. They are definitely less scary than Hyenas and feels like a cross between what we call a bakoorjakkals (aka jackal with scientific name Otocyon megalotis) and a Hyena.
Their name "Aardwolf" in my native language Afrikaans, directly translates to Earth Wolf!
Keep exploring... Jaco
Thank you for this comment, @extremejogging! It's so nice when people with first hand experience are able to chime in with additional information to my posts ;)
It's funny that you should point out that their are translated into earth wolf, because the Norwegian name for them (jordulv) will also translate directly into earth wolf.