How big does a Aardwolf get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Aardwolf (Proteles cristatus) reaches an average size of 70.1 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 8.29 kg (18.28 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:
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Aardwolf with a size of 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- 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:
- Patas monkey with a size of 66.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Culpeo with a size of 72 cm (2′ 5″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Smooth-coated otter with a size of 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Hose’s palm civet with a size of 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Wolverine with a size of 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Aders’s duiker with a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a size of 57.9 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:
- Japanese hare
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
- Mexican woodrat
- Pichi
- Common rufous-nosed rat
- Ochre bush squirrel
- Crab-eating raccoon
- Brown hyena
- Rusty-spotted genet
- Black-headed marmoset
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Aardwolf
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Aardwolf:
- Lion with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Western barbastelle with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Muskox with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Domestic yak with an average maximal age of 22.25 years
- Blue wildebeest with an average maximal age of 21.5 years
- Cattle with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Galápagos fur seal with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Asian palm civet with an average maximal age of 22.42 years
- Sitatunga with an average maximal age of 21.5 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Aardwolf
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Proteles cristatus:
- Lowland paca with a weight of 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus with a weight of 9.16 kilos (20.19 lbs)
- Pudú with a weight of 9.61 kilos (21.19 lbs)
- Canada lynx with a weight of 9.73 kilos (21.45 lbs)
- Moor macaque with a weight of 7.29 kilos (16.07 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a weight of 8.56 kilos (18.87 lbs)
- Tana River mangabey with a weight of 7.08 kilos (15.61 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 6.65 kilos (14.66 lbs)