‘THE AARD OR EARTH WOLF 
(Proteles cristatus) 
Also known as the Manhaar Jakhals; Grey Jackal ; 
Nadrou Jackal; Wehr Wolf; Inci of the Amaxosa 
natives ; Isingci of the Swazis ; Tuku of the Basutos 
(Kirby) 
Lise 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 
Protelide 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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