Meet Nature's Most Adorable, Best Kept Secret: The Aardwolf

These cute creatures live in the scrublands of Southern and Eastern Africa. Aardwolves typically grow to be about the size of a fox, and they have distinctive black stripes around their chest and on their legs. They also have tufts of fur on their back that stand up like a mohawk. They’re related to hyenas, but unlike their carnivorous cousins, aardwolves prefer to get their food from below the ground.

Aardwolves love termites, and they can eat up to 300,000 of them in a night! When they're eating the termites, they're careful not to completely destroy the termite mound. Once they finish eating, they'll memorize where the mound is. Then, they'll return to it once the termites have rebuilt. They lick up the termites using their long tongues.