Resharing for #NationalAardvarkWeek 2026!

Happy #NationalAardvarkWeek 2026 to all who celebrate.

Resharing for #NationalAardvarkWeek 2026!

Resharing for #NationalAardvarkWeek 2026!

Resharing for #NationalAardvarkWeek 2026!

Using the Promira Serial Platform or Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter as a Slave Device Learn how to use the Promira Serial Platform and Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter in slave mode to emulate devices, validate master behavior, and test firmware.

Day 4 of #NationalAardvarkWeek, we’re showing how the Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter can be used as a slave device, allowing I2C/SPI engineers to reliably emulate peripherals & verify master behavior.

Check out the App Note!: www.totalphase.com/solutions/ap...

For Day 3 of #NationalAardvarkWeek, see how the Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter polls a 3-axis accelerometer as an I2C master while the Beagle I2C/SPI Protocol Analyzer monitors the I2C traffic, enabling rapid I2C system prototyping.
🎥 Watch the demo: youtu.be/DpkWgO9TdIA?...

Case Study - Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter - GY Tech GY Tech streamlined their SSD Management Interface testing by using the Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter for seamless, reliable I2C communication.

It’s day 2 of #NationalAardvarkWeek! See how GYTech used the Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter for Management Interface (MI) testing of NVMe SSDs on their PyNVMe3™ platform - ensuring fast, stable, and reliable I2C communication. Read the case study: www.totalphase.com/solutions/ca...

Resharing for #NationalAardvarkWeek 2026!

Happy #NationalAardvarkWeek 2026! It’s one of my favorite animals so expect plenty more #aardvark “aart” throughout the week 🥰

Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter Unboxing and Quick Start In this video, we will be unboxing the Aardvark™ I2C/SPI Host Adapter and showing how to quickly get started using this tool, including setting up I2C and SPI master and slave modes.

It’s #NationalAardvarkWeek! We’re celebrating by spotlighting the Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter — the perfect tool for developers who want powerful system emulation capabilities with minimal setup. 🎥 Watch our Unboxing & Quickstart tutorial to learn more: www.totalphase.com/solutions/vi...

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

It’s #NationalAardvarkWeek. #DidYouKnow the MetroCard almost had a mascot called “Cardvaark?!” Perhaps a little too earnest for #NYC, Cardvaark never got off the ground. This is a sketch of Cardvaark from the #NYTMCollection. What do you think? Read more about Cardvaark in our Instagram post today.

Digital scan of a monochrome b/w book plate, illustration of three aardvarks feeding in their native habitat with moon in the sky (they are primarily nocturnal). Caption: THE AARD-VARK. - Here is one of the most clumsy, odd looking animals in the world. The name, which is Dutch, signifies "Ground-hog," although the animal is very widely different from that which we know by the same name. It lives in southern and central Africa. Its coarse, bristle-like hair, long tail, elongated head and ears, strong claws, and long tongue make a strange picture. (Orycteropus capensis.)

#NationalAardvarkWeek insult from Brehm's Life of Animals: Vol. 1, Mammalia, 1895: "Here is one of the most clumsy, odd looking animals in the world." Wow, rude! #AardvarksAareAawesome - they’re actually quite swift & agile & can defend themselves well - see thread below!
BHL: flic.kr/p/atGEHQ

celebrate aardvarks in this #Nationalaardvarkweek, wonderful animals - I have no pics so here are a couple of Malawian landscapes where we were fairly sure aardvarks were hiding...., #aardvark, #malawi,

Plate 48 in The animal kingdom : arranged in conformity with its organization: The class Mammalia v.3 London :Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker,1827. image: https://flic.kr/p/bQebyB (digitized book plate, monochrome image of a single Aardvark, here labeled as "The Cape Anteater")

color photo of a postage stamp on black background: Kenya, 15c, Queen Elizabeth 1966-1971 commonwealth pictorial definitive postage stamp issue, 1966; black and orange featuring an Aardvark (here labeled as Ant Bear), catalog reference SG-22 image via /www.hipstamp.com/listing/kenya-1966-scott-22-used-15c-aardark-ant-bear/48558314

Title: African Bush Pig, collector card from the Animals series (D9), issued by the Weber Baking Company to promote Onist Milk and Pullman Bread Publisher: Issued by Weber Baking Company Date: early 20th century Medium: Commercial color lithograph Dimensions: Sheet: 2 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (6.4 × 8.3 cm) Classifications: Prints, Ephemera Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick Accession Number: 63.350.307.9.16 Metropolitan Museum of Art collection: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/680293

#NationalAardvarkWeek: #DYK the Engish common name #Aardvark derives from the Afrikaans aarde ‘earth’ + vark ‘pig’; other colloquial names include:
"Cape Anteater" (book plate, London 1827)
"Ant Bear" (stamp, Kenya 1966)
"African Bush Pig" (collector card, USA early 20th c.)
see ALTS for more info!

Resharing for #NationalAardvarkWeek 2025!

Resharing for #NationalAardvarkWeek 2025!

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for National Aardvark Week, Part 2: Aardvarks in Bambara (Bamana) Sculpture – ART HISTORY ANIMALIA Happy #NationalAardvarkWeek! Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) are widely distributed across Sub-Sahara Africa, and as such can be found in African visual culture from ancient rock art to contemporary work...

More on the blog for #NationalAardvarkWeek:
ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for National Aardvark Week, Part 2: Aardvarks in Bambara (Bamana) Sculpture arthistoryanimalia.com/2024/03/06/a...

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for National Aardvark Week, Part 1: Robert Jacob Gordon’s Aardvarks – ART HISTORY ANIMALIA Happy #NationalAardvarkWeek! Besides being one of my favorite mammals, the Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is also the most evolutionarily distinct one, which makes it very special indeed: The aardvark......

On the blog for #NationalAardvarkWeek:
ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for National Aardvark Week, Part 1: Robert Jacob Gordon’s Aardvarks
arthistoryanimalia.com/2024/03/05/a...

Issuer: Zambia Period: Republic (1964-date) Type: Standard circulation coin Years: 1982-1983 (note: a bronze version was also in circulation from 1968-1978) Value: 1 Ngwee (0.01 ZMK) Currency: Kwacha (1968-2012) Composition: Copper clad steel Weight: 2.1 g Diameter: 17.5 mm Thickness: 1.45 mm Shape: Round Technique: Milled Orientation: Medal alignment ↑↑ Demonetized: Yes Number: N# 2628 References: KM# 9a Obverse: Kenneth Kaunda, president of Zambia, facing right, date below; Script: Latin; Lettering: ZAMBIA 1983 Reverse: Aardvark (Orycteropus afer), value below; Script: Latin; Lettering: 1 ONE NGWEE Engraver: Norman Sillman Edge: Plain Mint: Royal Mint, Llantrisant, United Kingdom (1968-date) image: nordboutik59 / Numista https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2628.html

Issuer: Zambia Period: Republic (1964-date) Type: Standard banknote Years: 2003-2012 Value: 1000 Kwacha (1000 ZMK) Currency: Kwacha (1968-2012) Composition: Polymer Size: 140 × 70 mm Shape: Rectangular Demonetized: 30 June 2013 Number: N# 204063 References: P# 44 Obverse: Eagle, Tree; Lettering: Bank of Zambia, I promise to pay the bearer on demand, one thousand kwacha, For the bank of Zambia, (signature), Governor Reverse: Aardvark, Farmer on tractor, Liberty Monument; Lettering: Bank of Zambia, One thousand kwacha Watermark: African Fish Eagle head, National bird of Zambia Printers: Notes from 2003 - 2006 (P#44a - e) were printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company, notes from 2008 - 2009 (P#44f - g) were printed by the South African Bank Note Company, and notes from 2011 - 2002 (P#44h - i) were printed by Giesecke + Devrient. image: hex7ech / Numista https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note204063.html

Issuer: The Gambia Period: Republic (1970-date) Type: Non-circulating coin Year: 1977 Value: 40 Dalasis Currency: Dalasi (1971-date) Composition: Silver (.925) (Copper .075) Weight: 35 g Diameter: 42 mm Thickness: 2.87 mm Shape: Round Technique: Milled Orientation: Medal alignment ↑↑ Number: N# 38651 References: KM# 18, Schön# 17 Obverse: Effigy of president Sir Dawda Jawara facing left, date to the right; Script: Latin; Lettering: REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA - 1977 Reverse: Aardvark; Script: Latin; Lettering: 40 DALASIS Edge: Reeded Engraver: Michael Rizzello Mint: Royal Mint, Llantrisant, United Kingdom (1968-date) image: G.GILLES / Numista https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces38651.html

#NationalAardvarkWeek shoutout to Zambia for putting an #aardvark on both a circulating coin & banknote - the only country cool enough to have ever done either. Honorable mention to The Gambia for once issuing a commemorative coin with an aardvark too.
[images via Numista]
#AardvarksAareAawesome

Official museum photo of object: An aardvark figurine carved in banded agate in shades of brown, blue, ochre and grey, with rose diamond eyes; measurements 4.3 x 6.8 x 2.8 cm.

Happy #NationalAardvarkWeek!
Here is a one-of-a-kind piece from Fabergé: this lovely little agate aardvark with rose diamond eyes c. 1910 was bought by King George V in 1914 from Fabergé's London branch for £18. It's now in the Royal Collection Trust: rct.uk/collection/4...

#aardvarksaareaawesome