I'd never heard of aardwolves before.

Make my day cute animal video. I do love them so.

If you watch the original 1922 version of Nosferatu, there's a scene with one of the characters looking at a "werewolf' through a window.

The "werewolf" was an aardwolf. (Or some sort of hyaena, anyway.)

Interestingly enough, they are not related to each other.