#aardwolves

[blogforfauna]

Proteles cristata

Throughout history, there have been two types of hyenas: bone-crushing hyenas, and dog-like ones. Spotted, striped, and brown hyenas are the bone-crushing type. Of the dog-like hyenas, the aardwolf is the only species left.

Aardwolf means "Earthwolf" in Afrikaans, a language spoken in Southern Africa. Their use of burrows is what earned them the "earth" part of their name. Although wolf is also in its name and it looks very dog-like, aardwolves are not canines. They are the smallest of four hyena species, weighing around 20 pounds (9.07 kg).

Unlike the other hyena species that eat carrion, aardwolves eat insects. If they really need to they can also eat eggs, small mammals, and vegetation, but insects are preferred. Their main insect prey is termites, and they can eat up to 300,000 of them in one night using their long tongues. Their tongues are very sticky as well, with large papillae (those little tongue bumps) and sticky saliva.

Since they behave differently and are much smaller than other hyena species, scientists used to think aardwolves were not part of the hyena family. With their striped coats, researchers thought they might have even been mimicking the striped hyena.

Aardwolves are found in arid plains of eastern and southern Africa, where they live in burrows dug by aardvarks, springhares, or porcupines. Some dig their own burrows, but taking over an abandoned one is much easier. They sleep in these burrows during the day, coming out at night to hunt for insects and to hang out with friends or whatever.

I rate the Aardwolf 15/10. Little cuties :,)

Photo Credits:

(1) Catherine Withers-Clarke (2) Hennie van Heerden (3) H. van den Berg (4) Scott Roberts (5) Klaus Rudloff

#aardwolf #CUTEEEEEEE #little guys #earthwolf #hyena #aardwolves #hyaena #biology #zoology #animals #science #nature #wildlife #african animals #cute animals #animals u should know about #miniature hyena

[antiqueanimals]

‘Hyena’, Illustrated London News, November 21 1868.

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#mammals #hyenas #aardwolves #fave

[lonely-dog-draws]

image description: A shot from the movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, of a chest-up view of a person wearing a black turtleneck, standing with a wooden box behind them. Drawn over top of the person's head is an aardwolf's head- a species of hyena with a small, dark snout and dark fur under its eyes. He looks at something in the distance with his mouth open slightly. The entire image has a yellow-orange tint to it. End description.

looking at pictures of aardwolves reminded me of someone lol

#digital art #digital painting #the cabinet of dr. caligari #cesare the somnambulist #aardwolves #clip studio paint #image described #lonely dog draws #I was having a lot of fun drawing fur... so i think i spent Too much time rendering it...... #maybe someone out here will enjoy: cesare furry moment

[c-rowlesdraws]

The aardwolf looks like a chihuahua going through a scene phase (affectionate)

They’re a bit bigger than a chihuahua, but at only 17lbs on average, they’re still very little cute guys!

more Little Guy Facts while I’m here:

They’re shy and nocturnal, and even though evolution gave them strong jaw muscles like their cousins, they don’t eat anything but termites. Since their little paws aren’t great for digging and they can’t break into termite mounds by themselves, they wait for an aardvark to use its big claws to smash apart a termite mound, and then they go in and lick up all the termites left scattered on the ground after the aardvark has eaten what it wants. They also use abandoned aardvark burrows as dens for the same reason (little paws).

#hyenas #aardwolf #aardwolves #animals #catie talks #ask

[unbfacts]

#Aardwolves #animals #facts #species

[ayellowbirds]

Excuse me ma'am.

You said something about hyenas being canine/feline hybrid or something?

And the whole gender thing?? What gender thing.

Can you elaborate?

I would normally look this up but i have the math exam to decide my life tomorrow and can't afford to go down this rabbit hole immediately. Also this is more fun?

no problem at all! I love to talk about this, hyenas are some of my all-time favorite animals.

k, so: hyenas are commonly mistaken for canids, but they ain't canids. They ain't even in the Carnivoran suborder Caniformia w/ canids, bears, raccoons, etc. They're in suborder Feliformia, along w/ felids (cats), mongooses (includin' meerkats), fossas, an' civets. Their closest living relatives, taxonomically speaking, are animals like this:

and that also means that your average hyena (whether spotted, brown, striped, or aardwolf) is more closely related to Stationmaster Tama in ancestry than it is to a wolf or coyote.

the thing is, hyenas have historically and prehistorically wound up filling some very canid-like niches. Although the line of 'dog-like hyenas' is today only known from the aardwolf, even the 'bone-crushing hyenas' still have comparatively long muzzles that they use for catching prey by chasing and biting, rather than the heavy focus on ambush tactics that felids tend to use. Hyenids and canids are both well-adapted to running, suck ass at climbing, and have roughly-padded paws with non-extensible claws.

ironically, the most 'dog-like' hyenas around today specialize in an insectivorous diet. Many of the general hyenid characteristics are still considered very feliformian by researchers: their scent-marking, their mating habits, the way they loaf:

and if you take a good look at hyenas—especially spotties—compared to canids, you'll notice that their builds are still pretty different, with long, strong necks and a build where the hind legs are noticeably shorter than the forelimbs.

(source)

as for the gender thing:

female spotted hyenas have such high levels of androgens that they not only tend to be bigger than the males, but they also have dicks and balls of their own.

No, really! The vulva and clitoris of the female (ovary-bearing) hyena takes the form of a 'pseudopenis' that can be as long as the phallus of the male (semen-bearing) of the species; it's usually only distinguishable by the shape of the glans, or if the hyena in question is pregnant, nursing, or actively engaged in reproduction. Female hyenas actually give birth through their pseudopenis (which usually results in some pretty gruesome tearing), and they have a false scrotum of fatty tissue formed from part of the labia. This leads to a situation where the females have complete control over when and whom they mate with.

it's widely asserted that this is linked to the tendency (note, it's a tendency: there are observed cases of dominant males, typically the son of a dominant female) of female spotted hyenas to take the socially dominant role in interactions with males, but there is strong evidence that it's actually social factors that determine who is in charge in a spottie clan.

#spotted hyenas #hyenas #other important spottie facts: they moo when happy; laughing is a anxiety/stress call; they hunt more than they scavenge #aardwolves #hesitantlyhopefulspren

[venussdraw]

Sketch of the aardwolf which is one of the 4 hyena species. They eat insects and are the smallest of the 4.

#hyenas #aardwolves #aardwolf #sketchbook #drawing #art #desenho #hiena #artista #artists on tumblr #animals #animal planet #hyenas are awesome #proteles cristata #obssesion #best animal ever #animais #sketch #arte #trans artist #digital art #traditional art

[littlegremlinthoughts]

I like hyenas and the entire Hyaenidae family, they’re weird.

#animal #animal post #animals #hyena #brown hyena #aardwolf #aardwolves #brown hyenas #striped hyena #spotted hyena #hyaenidae #i like em #littlegremlinthoughts #weird little guy

[spottedhyenaz]

"As several distinguished authors of the present age have undertaken to reconcile the world to the Great Man-Killer of Modern times; as Aaron Burr has found an apologist, and almost a eulogist; and as learned commentators have recently discovered that even Judas Iscariot was a true disciple, we are rather surprised to find that someone has not undertaken to render the family of Hyenas popular and amiable in the eyes of mankind. Certain it is, that few marked characters in history have suffered more from the malign inventions of prejudice."

-Goodrich, S.G. and Winchell, A., Johnson's Natural History (New York: A.J. Johnson & Company, 1885), p. 248

#spotted hyenas #striped hyenas #aardwolves #brown hyenas #hyenas #hyena therian #hyena otherkin #hyenakin #therian #otherkin #therianthropy #alterhuman #cackle.txt

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[satelliteduster]

new favorite image ever. please look at this fucker

#theyre so cuteee #nocturnal writings #hyena #edit: this lil guy is a striped hyena! love aardwolves but theyre much smaller and funnier-looking than this

[idkaguyorsomething]

I saw your favourite animal is hyenas and I just wanted to let you know my girlfriend is so intensely excited about hyenas, she spent her first year of uni figuring out how to cram hyenas into every single paper she wrote AND I know too much about the anatomy of the pseudo dick, thanks to her. They're really cool animals! Good choice :D

¡thank you! sounds like your girlfriend has really good taste 🙂. hyenas get a bad rap, but they truly are very fascinating creatures, and it’s a bummer that lots of people don’t even realize there are more than spotted hyenas.

not gonna force everyone who sees this to learn what a pseudopenis is (even if it is really interesting) so look at these pictures of hyenas instead:

#aardwolves and brown hyenas and stripes hyenas i’m so sorry people overlook you so often #oh well at least spotted hyenas get some attention #even if you’re evil characters 90% of the time cough cough LION KING cough cough #my asks #idk answers #hyenas #aardwolf #spotted hyena #striped hyena #brown hyena #hyena

[antiqueanimals]

Brehm's Tierleben. Written by Alfred Brehm. Illustration by Friedrich Specht. 1900 edition.

Internet Archive

#mammals #hyenas #aardwolves #Friedrich Specht

[froot-batty]

do you know those images of animals absolutely covered in blood after eating a yummy meal. thats what this was inspired by

creeps doesn't, technically, need to eat, just like jack doesn't. it is a good boost of energy, but with their body being dead (and creep's weird abilities letting them do whatever they want anyway), it doesn't give them anything substantial. that doesn't stop creeps from LOVING to eat though

creeper will eat anything and everything. metal. plastic. fruit. concrete. glass. it's part of the reason why it can't be contained, since it'll just chew a hole through anything eventually

creeps does partake occasionally in human snacks, too. human snacks being people that have been turned into snacks. while creeper is not typically bloodthirsty, it is very unpredictable and curious, and usually just follows whatever it's instincts tell it to do - which, sometimes, includes maiming and eating people

but don't worry, it doesn't hunt people very often. ivy and creeps have a deal where it'll take all of the bones and other inedible stuff off of her hands after she's done eating someone. creeps would never pass up easy snackies

#i cant remember who said it but whoever said creeps was very aardwolfcore was very close to what i had in mind #but instead of aardwolves its more hyenas #love when sillyguys also get insanely brutal at random #frootverse #jack ryder #the creeper #my art #batman #rogues gallery #tw blood #tw carcass #is this technically cannibalism? #ill tag it anyway #tw cannibalism

[hyenabrainedpup]

Going to the zoo tomorrow im so mfing excited

#im gonna be 19 what the fuck #BABY BROWN HYENAS!!!!! #AND AARDWOLVES

[starprincejelly]

New oc named Pluto the Aardwolf, what a funky little rockstar :D!

#look at my boy #im love him #I was gonna make him a hyena at first #but then I was like okay but aardwolves #aardwolfs? #whatever the plural of aardwolf is #loved using bright and loud colors this time #sth #sonic the hedgehog #digital art #sonic oc #pluto the aardwolf