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"the
aardwolf uses a wide tongue for licking grass eating termites off the
surface. When the conditions are good an aardwolf can eat 250,000
termites in a night (over a kilogram). It all seems rather a lot of
effort, and a lot of sand gets consumed by licking termites off the
ground. This is evident in aardwolf droppings that have a high soil and
sand content along with lots of bits of termite. The droppings are
comparatively large which I guess is a reflection of their diet mainly
being non digestible material."
"Aardwolf’s
have pretty big ears, and they use these to help find the harvester
termites. They can hear the noise of the termites cutting up grass. This
noise can be heard by people if they listen carefully." |
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