How big does a Aardwolf get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Aardwolf (Proteles cristata) reaches an average size of 69.7 cm (2′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 25 years, they grow from 275 grams (0.61 lbs) to 8.14 kg (17.94 lbs). A Aardwolf has 2 babies at once. The Aardwolf (genus: Proteles) is a member of the family Hyaenidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is an insectivorous mammal, native to East and Southern Africa. Its name means “earth-wolf” in Afrikaans and Dutch. It is also called “maanhaar-jackal” (Afrikaans for “mane-jackal”), “Nxi” by the Nama people, “ant hyena”, “termite-eating hyena” and “civet hyena”, based on its habit of secreting substances from its anal gland, a characteristic shared with the African civet. The aardwolf is in the same family as the hyena. Unlike many of its relatives in the order Carnivora, the aardwolf does not hunt large animals. It eats insects and their larvae, mainly termites; one aardwolf can lap up as many as 250,000 termites during a single night using its long, sticky tongue.The aardwolf lives in the shrublands of eastern and southern Africa – open lands covered with stunted trees and shrubs. It is nocturnal, resting in burrows during the day and emerging at night to seek food.
Animals of the same family as a Aardwolf
We found other animals of the Hyaenidae family:
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Aardwolf with a size of 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Striped hyena with a size of 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
Animals with the same size as a Aardwolf
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Aardwolf:
- Dingiso with a size of 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Guatemalan black howler with a size of 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- African clawless otter with a size of 80.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Gelada with a size of 62 cm (2′ 1″)
- Bobcat with a size of 69.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Southern muriqui with a size of 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Gray fox with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Suni with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black howler with a size of 55.9 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Aardwolf
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Aardwolf:
- Blanford’s rat
- Central African oyan
- Mexican woodrat
- Burmese ferret-badger
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Desert pocket mouse
- Buller’s chipmunk
- Red acouchi
- Large tree mouse
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Aardwolf
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Aardwolf:
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with an average maximal age of 24.5 years
- White-lipped peccary with an average maximal age of 21 years
- West Caucasian tur with an average maximal age of 20.5 years
- Striped hyena with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Emperor tamarin with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- Black wildebeest with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Amazonian manatee with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Common wombat with an average maximal age of 26.08 years
- Gemsbok with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Daubenton’s bat with an average maximal age of 28 years
Animals with the same weight as a Aardwolf
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proteles cristata:
- Bolivian red howler with a weight of 6.61 kilos (14.57 lbs)
- Sarcophilus laniarius with a weight of 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs)
- Southern river otter with a weight of 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.12 kilos (20.11 lbs)
- North American river otter with a weight of 8.09 kilos (17.84 lbs)
- Thomas’s langur with a weight of 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs)
- Tasmanian devil with a weight of 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs)
- Patagonian mara with a weight of 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs)
- Milne-Edwards’s sifaka with a weight of 6.57 kilos (14.48 lbs)
- François’ langur with a weight of 8.16 kilos (17.99 lbs)