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| image = Aardwolf25.JPG | image_width = 300px | image_caption = An Aardwolf at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden. | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Mammalia | ordo = Carnivora | familia = Hyaenidae | subfamilia = Protelinae | subfamilia_authority = Flower, 1869 | genus = ''Proteles'' | genus_authority = I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1824 | species = ''P. cristata'' | synonyms = ''Proteles Lalandii'' St. Hilaire | binomial = ''Proteles cristata'' | binomial_authority = Sparrman, 1783 | range_map = Aardwolf area.png | range_map_caption = Aardwolf range }} The aardwolf (''Proteles cristata'') is a small, 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") or ''civet hyena'', based on the secretions from their anal glands, reminiscent of civets.〔 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, using its long, sticky tongue to capture them.〔 The aardwolf lives in the scrublands of eastern and southern Africa – open lands covered with stunted trees and shrubs. It is nocturnal, resting in burrows during the day and emerging at night to seek food. Its diet consists mainly of termites and insect larvae. ==Taxonomy== The aardwolf is the only surviving species in the mammalian subfamily ''Protelinae''. There is disagreement as to whether the species is monotypic. or can be divided into subspecies ''P. c. cristatus'' of Southern Africa and ''P. c. septentrionalis'' of East Africa.〔〔 Recent studies have shown that the aardwolf probably broke away from the rest of the hyena family early on; however, how early is still unclear as the fossil record and genetic studies disagree by 10 million years. The aardwolf is generally classified with the Hyaenidae, though it was formerly placed into the family ''Protelidae''. Early on, scientists felt that it was merely mimicking the striped hyena, which subsequently led to the creation of Protelidae. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aardwolf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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