Rare African carnivore marks its territory

[uphamtimothy]

The name "aardwolf" came from the early Dutch pioneers of South Africa. Aardwolf in Dutch means "earth wolf," like aardvark mean "earth pig." So a lot of the animal names we have for African wildlife, comes from Dutch. Which is a lot better than "apartheid." But what makes the aardwolf so different from hyenas, it that they do not have the bone crushing jaws. Instead they lap up ants and termites.

[SunevaGun]

They look like a cross between an African wild dog and a hyena.

[steven22ful]

Just learned bout ths 2day...they do luk lyk hyenas n im really fascinated since Im a wildlife junkie...I hope ther r documentaries out there on them

[lastsaracen]

This animal should have been called the 'Hyaenawolf'. I think Aardwolf is a misnorma. think about it. It's a Hyaena yet they call it something with 'wolf.

[lastsaracen]

Like I said before, a more apt name would be the 'Hyenawolf''

[emilmoe92]

@SudiArabia

Aardwolfs are directly related to Hyenas, which is the smallest race of the Hyaenidae family of today.

[yellowknots]

I am writing down the entire dictionary and aardwolf is after aardvark, I've never heard of this before previously.

[brattette]

beautiful!! such great video quality too!!

[barriejimmy]

Another Great Video, thanks a lot, keep up the impressive work!!

[SudiArabia]

Don't they look like hyenas?

The footage is great. Makes me more itchy to go to Africa very soon.

[earthtouch]

@SudiArabia They certainly do. They are formally placed within the Hyaenidae but their actual evolutionary past is something of a mystery.

[earthtouch]

Thanks guys. These are one of those animals that are probably fairly common residents but are very rarely seen due to their very secretive behavior.

[tmacc]

cool footage

[SubparPanda]

Awesome footage!