THE AARD OR EARTH WOLF 



(Proteles cristatus) 



Also known as the Manhaar Jalchals ; Grey Jackal ; 

 Nadrou Jackal ; Wehr Wolf j Inci of the Amaxosa 

 natives ; Isingci of the Swazis ; Tuku of the Basutos 

 (Kirby) 



LIKE the Secretary Bird in the feathered kingdom, 

 the Manhaar Jakhals or Aard Wolf has no relatives 

 sufficiently allied to it in an anatomical sense to 

 permit of it being classified in the same family. 

 So naturalists have been forced to give it a family 

 name all to itself. On reference to books on natural 

 history it will, therefore, be found that the Aard 

 Wolf is the only representative of the family termed 

 Protelid* and the genus Proteles. 



The Aard Wolf is common throughout South 

 Africa, and in most other parts of the continent 

 north of the Zambesi. It is an inhabitant of the 

 bush-veld, and the open treeless country. Some- 

 times it makes a lair in the dense matted under- 

 growth, but as a general rule it lives in burrows 

 dug out by itself, or holes of smaller animals which 

 it enlarges ; but more usually the holes abandoned 



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