What a truly odd creature. Their diet of insects and cucumber sounds well balanced
According to this video, they eat 50,000 insects per night. There goes my aardvark-diet plan. š
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That's a lot of termites :)) You can see why they are important to crop management and even human structures. Keeping those termites and ants at bay is a real social service.
I think these critters are adorable. Couldn't find a video of a young one in the wild. Only saw videos of infants in zoos being fed by humans. That image offended me :(
Thanks for stopping by and sharing the video.
Only saw videos of infants in zoos being fed by humans
Their restricted diet seems an evolutionary liability. As you mentioned, their bodies are specifically adapted for hunting certain insects, so if something were to happen to those insects, then the aardvarks are going to have a hard time adapting. It is an interesting creature, and this is a great article. š