🐜 Study confirms that ant-eating aardvarks have a craving for buried melons
#aardvarks
Трубкозубы (Orycteropus afer) ищут плоды подземного огурца/дыни (Cucumis humifructus) ⦾ https://nplus1.ru/news/2025/03/07/orycteropus-afer-%D1%81ucumis-humifructus #Aardvarks #Orycteropusafer #mammals #scifine #Cucumishumifructus #nplus1 #Africa
#NationalAardvarkWeek: #DYK #aardvarks are endemic to sub-Saharan Africa? They appear as rock art at a number of sites across their native range. Here is a petroglyph on display at the National Museum of Cultural History in Pretoria, South Africa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Cultural_History_Museum-040.jpg
#AardvarksAareAawesome
##NationalAardvarkWeek fun fact: #DYK that #aardvarks can stand up for a bit? Their thick kangaroo-like tail helps with balance!
Plate: Taf. 1 in Anatomische Untersuchungen über die Edentaten by Wilhelm Ludwig von Rapp, 1852 via Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://flic.kr/p/2kyzFsV
Turned off #aardvark's IM integration. Neat idea. Most annoying contact on my contact list.
"Misaligned Aardvarks" released!
The winner of the Fedivision Song Contest 2024 is now available to stream and download.
The B-side is a newly remixed version of "Primavera" - Key 13's cheesy butchering of a Vivaldi classic.
Exclusively on #mirlo is a new Anniversary Remaster of "Solarpunk Grazers", last year's contest entry.
https://mirlo.space/key13/release/misaligned-aardvarks
https://music.key13.uk/misaligned-aardvarks/
https://key13.bandcamp.com/album/misaligned-aardvarks
Free, but please donate - see next post.
How did I miss 'Hic et Nunc' from my #Faircamp?! Oh well, sorted now.. obviously no-one noticed!
https://music.key13.uk/hic-et-nunc/
Right, that's a bunch of music 'admin' done for today. Release prepped and ready for tomorrow - Misaligned Aardvarks with mystery bonus track:)
Did you know #aardvarks and #elephants are distantly related? I didn't!
They're apparently both members of a 'clade' or 'superorder' called 'Afrotheria': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrotheria
Looks like The Island of Nothing's entry "Misaligned Aardvarks" has drawn number 72 of 72 in the #fedivision list this year.. hopefully some folks will start from the bottom up! 😬 Oh well, someone had to be there.
Wish me luck!
And best of luck to everyone else, looks like it's all gone live a bit ahead of schedule!
In a first-of-its-kind study of #aardvarks, Oregon State University researchers spent months in sub-Saharan #Africa collecting poop from the #animal and concluded that aridification of the landscape is isolating them, which they say could have implications for their long-term survival.
#Zoology #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/12/zoo12182301.html
I'm not ashamed to admit that I understand less and less about pop culture as I get older but I completely missed the moment where we started using aardvarks as a unit of measure.
Are there other units of measure I'm unaware of? How many hedgehogs in an aardvark? Stotes in a badger?!
#NationalAardvarkWeek: In addition to Korèdugaso heads, the Bamana also incorporate #aardvarks into the composite animal designs of the ChiWara. A commonly seen combo is #antelope horns + #pangolin back + #aardvark head & lower body.
Paired male & female with baby ChiWara (Ci-wara Kun), Bamana, Mali (likely Ségou region), late 19th-early 20th c., wood & metal, Brooklyn Museum:
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4843
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4844
(illustration from African Masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection)
More examples of Korèdugaso: 1. rare double-headed version 2. head mounted on stick as "hobby-horse" 3. a whole armoury of #aardvarks! (That's the collective noun for a group of aardvarks, but they're largely solitary animals so that term is mostly for our own amusement)
images via https://wolfgang-jaenicke.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-korodouga-hobby-horse.html
@CoinOfNote nice! Yes I’ll collect tokens too if there is a cool animal on it. :) With regards to #aardvarks there’s way more to choose from on the postage stamp side of things, with a good number of #African countries having put them on their designs. My favorite is this 2011 sheet from #Mozambique as it’s a team-up with fellow myrmecophagous mammals & all-around awesome animals, #pangolins:
(Image via http://mozambique.post-stamps.com/issue-of-mozambique-postage-stamps-2011-08-30/)
#NationalAardvarkWeek: #DYK #aardvarks are endemic to sub-Saharan #Africa? They've been found in rock art from a number of sites across their native range. Here is a #petroglyph on display at the National Museum of Cultural History in Pretoria, #SouthAfrica: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Cultural_History_Museum-040.jpg
#AardvarksAareAawesome
#NationalAardvarkWeek fun fact: #DYK that #aardvarks can stand up for a bit? Their thick kangaroo-like tail helps with balance!
Plate: Taf. 1 in Anatomische Untersuchungen über die Edentaten by Wilhelm Ludwig von Rapp, 1852 via BHL: https://flic.kr/p/2kyzFsV
#Aardvarks can not only run fast to escape, but can dig fast too - up to about .6 m/2 ft per 15 seconds! That escape hole in the video above was already there though - they have auxillary burrows throughout their home range in addition to their main home. Good planning! :)
#NationalAardvarkWeek #AardvarksAareAawesome
A group of #aardvarks is called a armory.
An armory of aardvarks.
#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #aardvark
@liakaitlyn Can’t expect much from #Aardvarks.
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