🐾Aardwolf
العِسْبَار أو العِسْبَارَة أو العُسْبُر أو العُسْبُور أو ذِئْبُ الأرْضِ (بالأفريقانية: Aardwolf) (الاسم العلمي: Proteles cristatus)، هو حيوان ثديي لاحم. يكسو العسبار لونٌ أصفر برتقالي وتمتد في وسط هذا اللون خطوط سوداء، وهي أيضاً مكسوةٌ بفروٍ كثيفٍ خشن يصبح أكثر كثافةً عند الذيل، والعسابير أيضاً تملك أعرافاً سوداء مرعبة، كما أن خطمه صغير ومدبب وعضلات فكه ضعيفة وأذناه طويلتان لكن أسنانه الأمامية شبيهة بأسنان الضبع لكنها أصغر حجما وأشكالها مخروطية.
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IUCN Red List assessment.
- Body mass
- 8.12 kg
- Body length
- 0.75 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 25 years
Everything we know about the Aardwolf
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass8.12 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 10 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.75 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass36 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan25 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 20 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length8.3 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity1.7 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation88 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 84 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 3COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 2.5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range1.51 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.81 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l8.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Aardwolf yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyHyaenidae
- ›genusProteles
- ›speciesProteles cristata
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyHyaenidae
- genusProteles
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderFeliformia
- familyHyaenidae
- genusProteles
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