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Aardwolf Anyone?

Category: Mammals, camera-trap | Date: Jul 11 2008 | By: tumaren

I finally got my Aardwolf picture. While biking i flushed this guy from this hole as he was leaving at dusk to forage for termites and other insect tidbits.  I returned with the camera trap and after three days/nights he made this one and only showing.  I assume by his tracks that he has been coming and going on the other nights but enters and exits his hole at a high velocity, faster than the camera’s silly delay that is. Wim are you seeing this?

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5 Responses to “Aardwolf Anyone?”

Christine C., on 11 Jul 2008

Wow, what a cool looking little guy…he looks like he might be hamming it up a bit for you there!!

admin, on 11 Jul 2008

SWEEET

Wim, on 12 Jul 2008

You know? Your glove-puppets just get more and more convincing…
Shari Lewis is alive and playing the plains of East Africa…
Mm? Aardwolf you say? Would that perhaps be the elusive and somewhat mythical lesser Tumaren Aardwolf?
YE GODS: FINALLY!
Who’d have thought he’d look that charmingly demented, maginificent as he is in his wholly feral integrity and not that we’d dream of doing anything as undignified and unscientific as anthropomorphising him (do you think he talks like Yoda or the donkey in Shrek?)
I’m delirious with excitement.
A little Aardwolf goes a long way!
Thanks James.

James, on 13 Jul 2008

I began college as an Environmental Studies major where, on arrival i promptly learned that anthropomorphizing animals was not ok. Then during our first environmental ethics class we began discussing if the broccoli could feel it when we eat it. I promptly transfered to Wildlife Biology where i could safely return to anthropomorphic generalizations - despite the name, I think he likely sounds more like piglet.

Wim, on 13 Jul 2008

Ah yes, the silent scream of the broccoli… Piglet works though I was leaning toward Jimmy Durante… Either way, he’s a stunner.

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