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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AARDWOLVES

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Aardwolves is a noun.
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WHAT DOES AARDWOLVES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Aardwolf

The aardwolf is a small, insectivorous mammal, native to East Africa and Southern Africa. Its name means "earth wolf" in the Afrikaans / Dutch language. It is also called "maanhaar jackal", or civet hyena, based on the secretions from their anal glands. The aardwolf is in the same family as the hyenas. Unlike many of its relatives in the order Carnivora, the aardwolf does not hunt large animals, or even eat meat on a regular basis; instead it eats insects, mainly termites – one aardwolf can eat about 250,000 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. The aardwolf is nocturnal, resting in burrows during the day and emerging at night to seek food. Their diet consists mainly of termites, and insect larvae.

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Synonyms and antonyms of aardwolves in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «aardwolves» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

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Translator English - Bengali

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Erdwölfe
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Translator English - Afrikaans

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AARDWOLVES»

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Mammals of Africa
Aardwolves rest during the night for various lengths of time, from brief grooming bouts (30—60 sec) to 2 h 17 min (Bothma 8: Nel 1980). They usually cease foraging when it rains (Kruuk 8: Sands 1972) . The sound of raindrops striking the  ...
Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, 2013
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The Complete Book of Southern African Mammals
Aardwolves mate during mid-winter, so the cubs are born during early summer and may achieve almost their adult weight by the next winter. The males are diligent fathers, arriving at the din carK in the evening to guard the cubs against ...
M. G. L. Mills, Lex Hes, 1997
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The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region
Aardwolves are solitary foragers, except when accompanying their young cubs ( Bothnia ft Nel, 1980; Richardson, 1987a), but even four-month-old cubs spend most of the night foraging alone (Richardson, 1985; Koehler & Richardson, 1990) .
J. D. Skinner, Christian T. Chimimba, 2005
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Zoo Animal and Wildlife Immobilization and Anesthesia
Wild aardwolves are also darted for immobilization. Aardwolves are nocturnal and are darted while feeding at termite mounds (Anderson, 1992; McKenzie, 1993). Aardwolves are located with spotlights and are approached to within a distance ...
Gary West, Darryl Heard, Nigel Caulkett, 2013
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Computer Algebra Recipes: A Gourmet's Guide to the ...
Problem 5-8: Erehwonian aardwolves Two species of Erehwonian aardwolves, genetically altered relatives of those found on Earth,4 are in competition for the same food supply. Initially there are x = 2000 gray aardwolves and y = 1600 red ...
Richard Enns, George C. McGuire, 2001
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Field Guide to the Cradle of Humankind: Sterkfontein, ...
AARDWOLF Proteles cristatus Aardwolves evolved from a hyaenid ancestor, and this ancestry is still visible in their high shoulders and sloping back. Males and females are approximately the same size, weighing about 9 kg each. They have a ...
Brett Hilton-Barber, Lee R. Berger, 2004
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The Coevolutionary Process
Only during winter months do aardwolves sometimes supplement their diet with a small proportion of another harvester termite genus, Hodotermes. Aardwolves use different Trinervitermes species in different parts of their geographic range ...
John N. Thompson, 2009
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Hyena
Aardwolves feed almost exclusively on insects, mostly termites and larvae. Their teeth are reduced and adapted for termite eating, and they have long, sticky tongues for licking up bugs. When a termite mound is discovered, the aardwolfwill ...
Mikita Brottman, 2013
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The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed ...
Aardwolves concentrate on certain species in which the storing habit is least developed; these kinds forage in the open at all seasons (7). The distribution of aardwolves is thus largely dictated by that of the termites they prefer: open, dry ...
Richard Estes, 1991
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Nocturnal Omissions
“Yeah,” the unionist, “back in World War II, the 'Tuskegee Aardwolves' never lost a bomber to enemy fire.” “'Tuskegee Aardwolves'?” Humping. “'Tuskegee' is short for 'tusks'.” “Dammit, Humping,” the unionist, “aardwolves save lives in your ...
Peter Samuel Kolins, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AARDWOLVES»

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'How to Hunt Everything': New book by Glasgow writer takes aim at …
... Hunt Everything” covers traditional North American game animals, like bighorn sheep and elk, to oddities like aardwolves -- an insect-eating ... «Helena Independent Record, Jul 15»
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Slide Show: Secret Lives of the Serengeti
There are lions, hyenas, porcupines, zebras, wildebeest, cheetahs, aardwolves, and others—running, lounging, sneezing, eating one another, ... «The New Yorker, Jun 15»
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Time running out for orphaned aardwolf puppies
... nocturnal animal, resembles a thinner, smaller striped hyena. . Please Share .We have 24 hrs to find these baby Aardwolves before they die. «eNCA, May 15»
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The Karoo Predator Project: Mitigating the human-wildlife conflict
The photographers also want to encounter some rarely photographed Karoo wildlife like bat-eared foxes, aardwolves and aardvarks. To do so ... «Voices, Feb 15»
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Botswana: Makgadikgadi Pans Unexpected Delights in the Wilderness
... aardwolves, aardvarks and meerkats. And at night, it seems as though all of Botswana's diamonds have been thrown up to shine in the skies. «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
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Wonky weather becomes personal for reporter
... anacondas and Nile monitors, a lot of non-reptilian animal species, including baboons, aardwolves, giraffes, honey badgers and fishing cats. «The News-Press, Sep 14»
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Meet the Con Artists of the Animal World
There are beetles that pretend to be wasps, aardwolves that pretend to be hyenas, caterpillars that pretend to be bird poop (the better not to be ... «TakePart, Mar 14»
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Meet Another Exciting Animal in the Wild - the Aardwolf or Earth Wolf
Aardwolves usually hide in burrows during the day, and then they come out at night to seek food. Their diet nearly always consists of termites, ... «AllAfrica.com, Jan 14»
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Exploring the wild, wild west
“Duiker, steenbok, hares, kudu, springbok and rhebok are the most common, but there are also good numbers of aardwolves, Cape foxes and ... «Independent Online, Dec 13»
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Prehistoric world's missing big cats revealed in fossil finds
The fossil record of aardwolves is essentially nonexistent, so there is much debate as to when and how these peculiar hyenas evolved. Big cats ... «The Conversation, Nov 13»

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