THE AARD OR EARTH WOLF 
Wolf was sent to the museum, or if the body other- 
wise came into my possession, I always made a 
point of examining the contents of their stomachs. 
Although a considerable number were examined, 
I never in a single instance found anything but the 
remains of insects of various sorts, a few small 
lizards, young mice, and rats, and, in others, some 
traces of what seemed to be carrion. In the 
stomachs of many of them there was no trace of 
anything but termites. 
Mr. Cloete, who has done such good service in the 
cause of Natural History in the past, writes that 
he examined the stomachs of over fifty Aard Wolves 
and never found a trace of anything in the way of 
food, other than that which indicated a purely in- 
sectivorous diet. He went further and carefully 
examined the excrement, but such examination 
only served to confirm his other observations. 
Sparrman and other authors declare that the con- 
tents of the stomachs of all the Earth Wolves ex- 
amined by them contained termites only. These 
observations made it clear that in those districts 
which are infested with “‘ White Ants,” the Aard 
Wolf, like the Ant Bear, subsists almost, if not en- 
tirely, on them. In the parts where termites are 
scarce or non-existent, a miscellaneous assortment 
of insects and small soft-bodied creatures consti- 
tutes the diet of the animal. Apart from the actual 
examination of the contents of the Manhaar Jakhal’s 
stomach, a glance at the teeth of the animal would 
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