Mastodawn

#NationalAardvarkWeek shoutout to Zambia for putting #aardvarks on both circulating coins & banknotes - the only country cool enough to have done either.
Honorable mention to The Gambia for once issuing a commemorative aardvark coin.
1 Zambia 1000 Kwacha (1000 ZMK) standard banknote (2003-2012)
2 Zambia 1 Ngwee standard circulation coin (1982-1983; bronze version also in circulation from 1968-1978)
3 The Gambia 40 Dalasis non-circulating coin Wildlife Conservation series (1977)
(via Numista)

Art History Animalia 3d ago

#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

Art History Animalia Mar 11

#NationalAardvarkWeek: #DYK #aardvarks are endemic to 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, South Africa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_Cultural_History_Museum-040.jpg
#AardvarksAareAawesome

Paul Houle Mar 13, 2025

🐜 Study confirms that ant-eating aardvarks have a craving for buried melons

https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/02/study-confirms-that-ant-eating-aardvarks-have-a-craving-for-buried-melons/

#animals #wildlife #aardvarks #food

Study confirms that ant-eating aardvarks have a craving for buried melons

A new study has used camera-trap footage and scent analysis to confirm the unusual relationship between an African melon and the aardvark, an elusive ant-eating mammal found in sub-Saharan Africa. Cucumbers and similar melon-like plants generally display their fruits aboveground, but an African melon (Cucumis humifructus) buries its fruit about 20 centimeters (8 inches) underground, […]

Mongabay Environmental News

toiida🌻Mar 12, 2025

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

Подземные дыни спрятались от дикобразов и привлекли запахом трубкозубов

Хотя трубкозубы питаются в основном муравьями и термитами, они оказались основными распространителями семян растения <i>Cucumis humifructus</i>

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Art History Animalia Mar 7, 2025

#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

File:National Cultural History Museum-040.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Art History Animalia Mar 6, 2025

##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