Engraving of an aardvark from a book. The aardvark is standing in side profile, in front of a landscape which is presumably a savanna, next to what look like termite hills. It has a stocky body, a long tail, bristly hairs, and rabbity ears. A teeny-tiny tongue protrudes from its elongated snout. It is standing on four stocky legs, and has flattened nail-like hooves. The caption under the engraving reads: 'Aard Vark - Orycteropus Capensis'.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the aardvarks, for today is their special day!

This engraving of an aardvark is from the book 'The Illustrated Natural History' by J. G. Wood, published in 1863.

📷 Reserve 590.2/WOO

#NationalAardvarkDay #AardvarkDay #Aardvarks #RareBooks

How aardvarks are built to eat 50,000 ants a night | BBC Science Focus Magazine Late-night munchies take on a completely new meaning when you're an aardvark

How aardvarks are built to eat 50,000 ants a night #Science #Biology #Zoology #Aardvarks #Wildlife #AntEaters

www.sciencefocus.com/nature/aardvarks-eating-...

WILDLIFE VIDEO (4 min.)

"The desert has plenty of food, but you have to find it. Using their amazing sense of smell and digging skills, both Pangolins and Aardvarks can tap into the desert's supply of termites."
🏜️🐜🦡 #Pangolins #Aardvarks #WildlifeVideo #BBCEarth #Nature #Biology #AmazingCritters

The Capelobo is a mythical creature from Brazilian mythology. It is known to hunt humans by squeezing them drinking their blood eating their brains if given the opportunity.
#capelobo #anteater #aardvarks #Brazilian_mythology
#beast #mythology #sketch

Occult Conundrum (1/2)

Cults are scary, except the Aardvarks. You should join that one.

#art #artist #thereisanaardvarkinthiscomic #aardvark #aardvarks #comic #comics #digitalart #digitalartists #surreal #humor #cult #spooky #occult

EleFact Friday: Even More Elephant Cousins We were so excited to see that our previous EleFact helped many people learn that manatees and elephants were family members in the animal kingdom. Not only that, but we discovered

Interesting facts

globalelephants.org/elefact-frid...

#Elephants #jordsvin #aardvarks

🐾 Aardvarks: The Unique Creatures of the Night!
Did you know that aardvarks have long, sticky tongues to feast on ants and termites? 🐜 They’re also expert diggers, using their powerful claws to burrow deep into the ground!

#BioSciNews #Science #AnimalKingdom #Aardvarks #Animal

Engraving of an aardvark from a book. The aardvark is standing in side profile, in front of a landscape which is presumably a savanna, next to what look like termite hills. It has a stocky body, a long tail, bristly hairs, and rabbity ears. A teeny-tiny tongue protrudes from its elongated snout. It is standing on four stocky legs, and has flattened nail-like hooves. The caption under the engraving reads: 'Aard Vark - Orycteropus Capensis'.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the aardvarks, for today is their special day!

This engraving of an aardvark is from the book 'The Illustrated Natural History' by J. G. Wood, published in 1863.

📷 Reserve 590.2/WOO

#NationalAardvarkDay #AardvarkDay #Aardvarks #RareBooks

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. Cuc...

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

news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

#animals #wildlife #aardvarks #food

Title: Orycteropus afer (Aardvark) Object type: drawing Object number: RP-T-1914-17-215 Inscriptions / marks annotation: ‘onder: Caaps Sogenaamt Aardvarken / Sijnde een regte Miereneter van het Vrouwelijk geslagt ~.; l.b.: regter voor poot, van onder gesien.; r.b.: regter agter poot van onder gesien; m.b. Lengte [...]’ Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786 Material: paper, deck paint, ink, watercolor (paint), pencil, chalk Technique: brush / pen Measurements: height 660 mm × width c. 480 mm height 232 mm × width 353 mm height 194 mm × width c. 353 mm Explanatory note: Gordon classified the aardvark among the anteaters, but not the American ones. Is part of: The Gordon African Collection : Quadrupeds (RP-T-1914-17B) Rijksmuseum collection: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-215

Title: Orycteropus afer (Aardvark) Object type: drawing Object number: RP-T-1914-17-234 Inscriptions / marks annotation: ‘onderaan: Caaps Sogenaamt Aardvarken / sijnde een regte Mieren - eter, van het Vrouwelijk geslagt ~.’ Description: An anteater of the female sex. Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786 Material: paper, ink, watercolor (paint), pencil, chalk Technique pen / brush Measurements: height c. 660 mm × width 480 mm height 225 mm × width 361 mm height 194 mm × width 361 mm Explanatory note: Practically identical to G. 215; the systematic place is uncertain; Gordon places him among the anteaters. Is part of: The Gordon African Collection : Quadrupeds (RP-T-1914-17B) Rijksmuseum collection: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-234

Title: Orycteropus afer (Aardvark) Object type: drawing Object number: RP-T-1914-17-235 Inscriptions / marks annotation: ‘onderaan: Caaps Sogenaamt Aardvarken / Sijnde een regte Mieren = eter. van het Vrouwelijk geslagt~. / [...]’ Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon Dating: Oct-1777 - Mar-1786 Material: paper, ink, watercolor (paint), pencil, chalk Technique: pen / brush Measurements: height c. 660 mm × width 480 mm height 224 mm × width 351 mm height 173 mm × width 341 mm Explanatory note: Practically identical to G. 215; the systematic place is uncertain; Gordon places him among the anteaters. Is part of: The Gordon African Collection : Quadrupeds (RP-T-1914-17B) Rijksmuseum collection: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-235

Title: Orycteropus afer (Aardvark) Object type: drawing Object number: RP-T-1914-17-236 Inscriptions / Marks annotation: ‘een Caaps zogenaamd Aardvarken, zijnde een regte Mieren Eter, dog niet de Americaansche, [...]’ signature and date: ‘[...] den 16.August: R:J: Gordon’ Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon Dating: 16-Aug-1777 - 16-Aug-1786 Material: paper, ink, watercolor (paint), pencil, chalk Technique: pen / brush Measurements: height c. 660 mm × width 480 mm height 332 mm × width 440 mm height 310 mm × width 425 mm Explanatory note: The systematic place is uncertain; Gordon places him among the anteaters. Is part of: The Gordon African Collection : Quadrupeds (RP-T-1914-17B) Rijksmuseum collection: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1914-17-236

#NationalAardvarkWeek:
#Aardvarks by Robert Jacob Gordon (Dutch, 1743-1795), from The Gordon African Collection, 4 albums of natural history illustrations made during 4 expeditions to the Dutch Cape Colony (South Africa) from 1777-86. Now in the Rijksmuseum.
www.robertjacobgordon.nl/search?q=aar...

photo of a petroglyph on display at a museum depicting the unmistakeable silhouette of an aardvark on a brown stone

#NationalAardvarkWeek: #DYK #aardvarks are endemic to 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: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Na...
#AardvarksAareAawesome

GIF: aardvark digging

#Aardvarks can not only run fast to escape, but can dig fast too - up to about .6 m/2 ft per 15 seconds! Looks like that escape hole in the video above was already there though - they dig auxillary burrows across their home range in addition to their main home. Good planning! 😎

digitized image of a color book plate, illustration of two aardvarks on groundscape, one of the left standing upright in side profile and one on the right lying down in side profile

color photo of a real-life aardvark in a standing, bipedal pose, side profile on white background (licensed stock image)

##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: flic.kr/p/2kyzFsV

#fun #aardvarks

Customer Knows Best (1/2)

There was something in the soup.

#art #artist #comic #comics #digitalart #digitalartist #goofy #weird #aardvark #aardvarks #surrealart #thereisanaardvarkinthiscomic #soup

Twist the Mortal Knob

What lies behind the door? Well, there’s a weird answer.

(1/2)

#art #artist #comic #comics #digitalart #digitalartist #spooky #horrorcomic #horror #goofy #weird #aardvark #aardvarks #surreal #surrealart #thereisanaardvarkinthiscomic

I’ve been having fun with some new t-shirt designs.

#uncommonanimals #animals #aardvarks #ringtailedlemur #zorilla #animalalphabet

This poetry book of mine is currently a free ebook on any Amazon platform 😊 But just for one day 😊

#free #freebook #poetry #aardvarks

Apparently it has been one year since my poetry collection about aardvarks came out 😊🎶

#poetry #poems #verse #aardvarks

完成しました \(〃▽〃\)

ファインモールド 1/72
F-4J  VF-114 アードバークス

好きな機体、好きな飛行隊 ⸜(* ॑꒳ ॑*)⸝

アメリカ海軍戦闘機飛行隊「ツチブタ」が愛称
CVA-63 キティホーク搭載機
#ファインモールド #finemolds #Aardvarks #scalemodel #plasticmodel

汚し いい感じ (*>ω<)b
#ファインモールド #finemolds #Aardvarks #scalemodel #plasticmodel

デカール貼り終わり \( ´˘`)/
VF-114は、カッコイイ ( * ॑꒳ ॑* )✨

#ファインモールド #finemolds #Aardvarks #scalemodel #plasticmodel

基本デカール貼り終わり (o^^o)
垂直尾翼は、先に貼っていますが。
この後、VF-114 空母キティーホーク艦載機になる為の デカール ⸜(*' '* )⸝

#ファインモールド #finemolds #Aardvarks #scalemodel #plasticmodel

F-4J  VF-114 アードバークス
ツチブタマーク いいですねぇ～ (^^)
#ファインモールド #finemolds #Aardvarks #scalemodel #plasticmodel

デカールがモールドに馴染むと
ﾆﾔﾆﾔ(˶'∀'˶ )ﾆﾔﾆﾔ します
#ファインモールド #finemolds #Aardvarks #scalemodel #plasticmodel

ファントムⅡ カッコイイ場所の一つ✨
塗装をした後、更に焼けた雰囲気に😄
なのですが。ここも苦手😟ﾑｽﾞｶｼｲ
#帰ってきたファントム祭り
#ファインモールド #finemolds #Aardvarks #scalemodel #plasticmodel

VF-114 アードバークスの特徴
鮮やかな オレンジ😃
センタータンク等にも🍊色
#帰ってきたファントム祭り
#ファインモールド #finemolds #Aardvarks #scalemodel #plasticmodel