Gradually the mound is built up into a full fledged termite colony. The aardvark has enlarged ears which it uses to hear termites. It has an elongated snout which it can use to blow away dirt. It has a long sticky tongue for probing the termite mound and for gathering in termites. It has huge claws which it can use to dig into the hard termite mound.
Aardvarks are cool.
The aardwolf has large ears which are very sensitive to the high-frequency sounds the jaws of harvester termites makes while cutting grass. They also have a large sticky tongue that they use to lap up the termites. One species of termite has evolved a pointed snout rather than the typical mandibles of termites. This pointed snout is like a gun in that it can fire a substance at the aardwolf that smells like turpentine. If enough do this the taste becomes so bad as to deter even the most persistent aardwolf.