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.

When they want to intimidate predators, aardvarks will howl loudly and bark. But when they're just communicating with other aardvarks, they make softer noises called chirps.