Who's afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf? Everybody (almost)! Who's afraid of the Small, Good Aardwolf? Nobody! Except the termites. I show you WWF maximum cards / maxicards / dorincards from Eritrea, with The Aardwolf of northeastern Africa (Proteles cristatus septentrionalis)

This is another strange animal species, which has been named after 3 different animals: hyena, wolf ("earth wolf" = aardwolf) and jackal ("maanhaar jackal").

But it's a member of the Hyaenidae family. The "black sheep" of that family. (Here's another animal name...)

"The aardwolf (Proteles cristata) is a small, insectivorous hyena, native to Easternand Southern Africa. The name means "earth wolf" in Afrikaans/Dutch.^[2] It is also called "maanhaar jackal".^[3] Unlike other hyenas, the diet of the aardwolf almost completely consists of termites, other insect larvae and carrion.^[4]

The aardwolf is the only surviving species of the subfamily Protelinae. 

Two subspecies are recognized: Proteles cristatus cristatus of Southern Africa, and Proteles cristatus septentrionalis of eastern and northeastern Africa.^[5][6] 

It is usually placed in the Hyaenidae, though formerly separated into the family Protelidae. 

The aardwolf lives in the scrublands of eastern and southern Africa. 

These are the areas of land covered with stunted trees or shrubs. 

The aardwolf hides in a burrow during the day and comes out at night to search for food. 

It is related to hyenas, but unlike its relatives, it does not hunt large prey."

You think ALL animals are God's creatures? "Like" [= a cliché of young people], he created all of them on purpose, no matter how dubious or nefarious is that purpose to us?

Look what the aardwolf does to the termites, beloved creatures of God.

The aardwolf "is a mass killer of insects. 

It feeds mainly on termites and can eat more than 200,000 in a single night, using its long, sticky tongue to collect them."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardwolf

What do YOU know about Eritrea?

Me, neither - welcome to the club.

Now let's have a look.

They speak these languages: 

Tigrinya, Arabic, Tigre, Saho, Bilen, Afar, Kunama, Nara, Hedareb.

State of Eritrea ሃገረ ኤርትራ Hagere Ertra دولة إرتريا Dawlat Iritrīya
Flag Emblem

"Eritrea ( /ˌɛrɨˈtreɪ.ə/ or /ˌɛrɨˈtriːə/;^[6] Ge'ez: ኤርትራ ʾErtrā, Arabic: إرتريا Iritrīyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. 

The capital is Asmara. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The northeast and east of the country have an extensive coastline on the Red Sea, directly across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. 

The Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands are part of Eritrea. 

Eritrea's size is approximately 117,600 km² (45,406 sq mi) with an estimated population of 5 million."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea

As seen from AFAR (and ISSA)

"The Afar Depression (also called the Danakil Depression or the Afar Triangle) is a geological depression, includes Afar Triple Junction, near the Horn of Africa, also a part of the Great Rift Valley, where it overlaps Eritrea, the Afar Region of Ethiopia, and Djibouti. 

Afar is well known as one of the cradles of hominids, containing the Middle Awash, site of many fossil hominid discoveries such as Ardi, (ardipithecus ramidus); Gona (Gawis cranium), site of the world's oldest stone tools; and Hadar, site of Lucy [MY NOTE: no, not Lucy from I love Lucy!], the fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarensis."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afar_Triangle

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