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the walls and pave the floors of their huts with termite 
earth. 
The only sure way of destroying an ant-hill is to dig 
it up and find the queen or queens. If a queen be left 
the insects rebuild the nest. 
A curious animal known as the Aard-Wolf lives 
on decomposing carcases and termites. In shape and 
colour it resembles the hysena. During the day the 
Aard-Wolf sleeps in the unused holes of the antbear, 
and comes out at night. When excited or worried in a 
iSkull of the Aard-Wolf, showing the degenerate condi¬ 
tion of the teeth ; the animal lives on termites. 
(Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.) 
burrow it emits, like the skunk, an extremely foetid 
fluid from the anal glands. The crest or mane of 
hair along- the middle of its back is erected when the 
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animal becomes excited. The feeble condition of the 
Aard-Wolfs molar teeth correspond to its mode of 
living, but the strong claws enalde it to dig termites 
out of their nests. 
Jieferences. 
Drummond, H. ... Tropical Africa. London, 1888. 
Hayes, A. J. The Source of the Blue Nile. London, 1905. 
Smeathman, H. ... “Of the Termites in Africa and other Hot 
Countries,” Phil. IVans., 1785, LXXI., 
p. 139. 
