Seasonal differences in field metabolism, water requirements, and foraging behavior of free-living aardwolves.

From: Ecology | Date: December 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Aardwolves occur in east-central and southern Africa in regions of arid and semiarid grasslands. In South Africa, they feed almost exclusively on the termite Trinervitermes trinervoides during the warmer months of the year, whereas on cold winter nights these insects remain belowground, unavailable to aardwolves. At this time aardwolves shift their foraging efforts to a less abundant termite species, Hodotermes mossambicus. This species provides less food for aardwolves, making the wintertime potentially a period of energy stress for them. In this study, we report the first estimates of field ...

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