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Aardvark Atlast!

Category: Mammals, camera-trap | Date: Aug 01 2008 | By: tumaren

After months of trying we have finally caught up with our resident Aardvark.  Aardvarks have a tendency to sleep in one hole one night and another hole another night. This made camera trapping our quarry rather difficult.  During the day of July 28th one of our Rangers named Losorogol tracked Mr. Aardvark to a particular hole and could see by the movement of soil within the hole (they typically dig in deeper and semi bury the entrance hole when disturbed) that there was an Aardvark in residence.  We promptly placed our camera and this is what we got - arguably one of the cutest animals in the animal kingdom (Hooray!):

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2 Responses to “Aardvark Atlast!”

Christine C., on 01 Aug 2008

Mr. Aardvark is quite a cutie!

James, on 01 Aug 2008

Christine,
A biological rule (for mammals) that i’m working on is this: the longer the nose, the cuter the animal.
The aardvark is a classic example. Also the Tapir and new world ant-eaters. Cheers, James

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