Proteles cristata, the earth-wolf of southern Africa [1]raman amplifier [2]. He’s got a guilty look about him, doesn’t he? He knows what the other hyenas have been hiding. They’re his cousins.
They eat carrion and whatever they can kill; he eats termites [3] – as many as 300,000 a night, lapping them up with his long, sticky tongue.
What. What are you looking at. Go on, get out of here.
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, found here [4].