#Orycteropus afer

[aticketplz]

マジの自慢なのですが、日本平動物園のツチブタの名前をつけました。動物園で募集されていたので、それに応募しました。すでにいるフラハちゃんがスワヒリ語(意味は幸せとか喜びとか)なので、スワヒリ語を一生懸命調べて、「ゴロファ」という素晴らしい言葉を見つけました。平らという意味です。"日本平"の平ら、でこぼこがない、平和、やすらか。フラハとゴロファの並んだ感じもいい感じ。ゴロちゃんて呼びたい。これしかないと思いました。

Everyone, I have something to share. I named the new aardvark that arrived at Nihondaira Zoo. They had a naming campaign at the zoo from July to August, and the name I came up with was chosen. The existing aardvark's name is FURAHA, which means happiness in Swahili. So, I wanted to choose a name for the male aardvark from Swahili as well. The zoo's name, 'Nihondaira,' refers to the mountains around here, and in Japanese, it means a flat part of Japan. Drawing inspiration from this, I chose the word '平ら' (flat). This word also includes the meanings of peace and tranquility. In Swahili, '平ら' is 'GOROFA.' I thought the combination of FURAHA and GOROFA felt wonderful. I thought this was the only option.

先日やっと起きてるゴロファに会えました。おはよう！

The other day, I finally got to meet GOROFA awake. Good morning!

動物園から感謝状やバッジやゴロファの名前入りマグカップが送られてきました。泣いちゃった。

I received a certificate of appreciation from the zoo, as well as a photo of GOROFA, a badge, and a mug with the name 'GOROFA.' I was so happy that tears came to my eyes.

こちらはフラハちゃんです。ゴロファが採用されて、本当に本当に嬉しい。今年というか生涯でもトップクラスに嬉しい。たぶんこれをこの先超える喜びない。フラハとゴロファのカップルが平穏な日々を過ごせますように祈るばかりです！

@日本平動物園

This photo is of FURAHA. I don't think there will be greater joy in my life than naming a beloved animal at my favorite zoo. I pray that this couple will live a peaceful life ahead.

@Nihondaira Zoo

#日本平動物園 #mammal #aardvark #orycteropus afer #ツチブタ

[mirtadraws]

Happy New Year of the Moribund Aardvark to all denizens of the Disc, and further

detail under the cut :)

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #happy new year #year of the moribund aardvark #fanart #gouache #aardvark #orycteropus afer

[possumcollege]

Shout out to Afrotheria, a whole clade of animals that must've mocked God for old-timey white people.

#animals #afrotheria #tubulidentata #aardvark #tenrec #hyrax #elephant #elephant shrew #dugong #manitee #Orycteropodidae #Orycteropus afer #critters #possumcollege #beasties

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Etymology: During our 2013 trip with our colleague Andrea Battisti, we camped one night in an area with several large burrows of an unknown animal, possibly an aardvark [Orycteropus afer (Pallas, 1766)]. We did not know what it was and the fantasy name Yamalaka was coined. Since then we always think of a Yamalaka following and protecting us during our expeditions. We name this genus after our fictional protector. (Meregalli et al., 2021)

Submitter comment: I love a properly unhinged etymology

#submission

[amnhnyc]

The aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is one for a nighttime snack.🐜🐜🐜 This mostly nocturnal African animal spends the day sleeping in its burrow, but at night it springs into action, consuming as many as 50,000 insects in one evening! It uses its 12-inch- (1-foot)-long tongue to scoop up ants and termites, which it swallows whole. It’s an expert digger, excavating more than 20 inches (51 centimeters) in 15 seconds! This talent comes in handy when it’s looking for its next meal, making a place to nap, escaping from predators, or creating elaborate tunnels where moms give birth to young. Photo: Richard Gillin, CC BY-SA 2.0, flickr #AnimalFacts #aardvark #nature #dyk https://www.instagram.com/p/CjWcGFVr2gj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#animalfacts #aardvark #nature #dyk

[arthistoryanimalia]

On the blog for #NationalAardvarkWeek:

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for National Aardvark Week, Part 1: Robert Jacob Gordon’s Aardvarks

#animals in art #animal holiday #european art #18th century art #Dutch art #colonial art #natural history art #scientific illustration #Robert Jacob Gordon #Rijksmuseum #National Aardvark Week #aardvark #aardvarks #aardvarks aare aawesome #mammals #drawing

[juanathefunkyfish]

Meet my fursonas

Greetings. I think it would be a good start for my blog to introduce my fursonas. Inside my multiverse's lore, these two entities not only serve as avatars of mine but they were also given by the gods the very important task to gather information about the different universes, be it population, stories, living beings, anything! They serve as the in-universe authors of my stories, which they created as a way to bring to general audiences (not gods) the most important legends and universes, or simply the ones that they found interesting. There are also some universes that worship them as minor gods of the natural (Limón) and artificial (Tank) elements and treat them as an inseparable duality called Aïs Motorik, term that they would end up adopting to call themselves when they're together, sometimes even acting as if both were the same person, despite their opposite personalities. However, more often than not the multiverse is a cruel place, and so they sometimes have to use their powers of matter and energy manipulation, powers that they gained when their original universe was destroyed by a portal event, and that left them stranded in space fabric until the gods discovered them.

Without further introduction, here they are my fursonas:

Limón (Spanish for "lemon") is a zebra moray (Gymnomuraena zebra) that used to work as a painter before the destruction of her universe. She is a bit shy and has troubles interacting with others, except for animals and plants (and related beings). Albeit she's not as physically strong as Tank, she is equally as smart, if not more, having a lot of skills and knowledge about nature and survival. She has a puppy-sized bumblebee as a pet, which she acquired from Earth-98, called Puffi. Aside from their main task, Limón also writes a haiku poetry book of vignettes from her favourite places of the multiverse. She's the main artist in the stories, as well as the main writer, with Tank serving as an, "storyfinder", editor and proof-reader. A weird abnormality that appeared due to her universe's disaster is the fact that the second jaw from her tongue acquired a very simple brain and cognition. Sometimes, this second brain can take control of her, and it calls itself under the name of Gilatin.

Tank Tramontana is a hybrid, her mom was a Southern long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus hybridus) and her dad was an aardvark (Orycteropus afer). She is rude and very physically strong, but don't get deceived, she's smarter than you think. Before she was and lived in her parents basement, fixing motorcycles, making industrial music demos she would never publish and hosting loud industrial dance parties. One day, while high at a party hosted by his friends, she was hit with a metal pipe that fell from the ceiling, and later claimed to have a revelation coming from a metal pipe god that ordered her to start a cult and spread the word of the "industrial messiah" by her music, which she now tries to accomplish during her travels with Limón, without her finding out of course... She has two pets, a black cockatoo named Fini and a acoustispider called Ende.

#furry art #anthro #furry oc #furry character #my fursona #fursona #fursona art #moray eel #zebra moray #oc #fish furry #fish fursona #hybrid #armadillo #long-nosed armadillo #aardvark #oc lore #worldbuilding #limón #tank #gods

[cosmicanger]

Aardvark (Orycteropus afer)

[theinfox]

Aardvark: Nature's Ant-Eater with a Remarkable Tongue!

One of the most important mammal in the African ecosystem is Aardvark, also known as Orycteropus afer. It is very unique regarding its appearance i.e. long snout, large ears and tail, and a stout body protected in coarse hair. By making use of its powerful claws and sticky tongue, it gets access to his diet including ants and termites. Its name comes from Afrikaans/Dutch for ‘earth pig’, this is because early Europeans considered it as a resembling animal to pig. However, later it was found that there is no such kind of similarity. Read the full article

#AardvarkAnatomy #AardvarkAppearance #AardvarkConservationstatus #AardvarkDiet #AardvarkDistribution #AardvarkEvolution #AardvarkFunFacts #AardvarkGeography #AardvarkHabitat #AardvarkLifeCycles #AardvarkLifestyle #AardvarkMatingHabits #AardvarkOrigin #AardvarkPopulation #AardvarkPrey #AardvarkRelationshipwithHumans #AardvarkReproduction

[nedsecondline]

Let’s save the wildlife – Aardvark (Orycteropus afer)

They belong to the same group of mammals as the African elephant and have no relation to anteaters despite their similar appearance. They have a …Let’s save the wildlife – Aardvark (Orycteropus afer)

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[aticketplz]

起きていても寝ていても素敵なゴロファ

@日本平動物園

Lovely GOROFA whether awake or asleep.

@Nihondaira Zoo

#orycteropus afer #ツチブタ #mammal #aardvark #日本平動物園

[bonesthedestroyeroflegos]

For the results of this week’s live stream I have two more watercolor mammals for you! A long-tailed pangolin (Phataginus tetradactyla) and an aardvark (Orycteropus afer).

It was my first time painting scales and I definitely think I need to refine my process a bit more.

If you want to see more check out my twitch at https://m.twitch.tv/bonesthedestroyeroflegos

#twitch art stream #twitch streamer #pangolin #aardvark #scientific illustration #watercolor #watercolor painting #animal art #long tailed pangolin #phataginus tetradactyla #orycteropus afer #twitch

[carnegiemuseumnaturalhistory]

A is for Aardvark

By John Wible

Photo by Louise Joubert, SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary

Upon encountering this unusual digging mammal, South African colonists dubbed it aardvark, which is Afrikaans for earth pig or groundhog. With an adult weight of 90 to 150 pounds they dwarf our Western Pennsylvanian groundhog and additionally look nothing like it! Aardvarks (Orycteropus afer) are solitary, nocturnal mammals, which means they live alone and are active almost exclusively at night. They have powerful forelimbs and very sharp, robust front claws perfect for digging large burrows and into the nests of their food prey: ants and termites. Their nostrils, which are vertical slits, can be closed completely and have a fringe of thick hairs that helps to keep soil out while they are rooting for food. They have poor eyesight but a phenomenally keen sense of smell. In fact, aardvarks have the highest number of olfactory turbinal bones of any mammal; these are the fine, scroll-like bones in the nasal cavity that are covered by olfactory epithelium for sense of smell. And given those long rabbit-like ears, they also have a keen sense of hearing. Yet, aardvarks are for the most part silent, using hearing to find prey and avoid predators and not to find each other.

Aardvarks were thought to be related to other myrmecophagous (ant-eating) mammals, namely the South American anteaters and Old World pangolins. However, analysis of their DNA groups aardvarks with other very different looking African mammals in a clade of unlikely bedfellows called Afrotheria, which includes elephants, hyraxes, sengis or elephant shrews, golden moles, and tenrecs, along with manatees and dugongs. Consequently, the dietary and digging adaptations of aardvarks have evolved independently of those in the South American anteaters and pangolins. The earliest aardvark fossils are from African and are roughly 20 million years old. They did expand into southern Europe and into Asia as far east as Pakistan, but today are confined to sub-Saharan Africa in habitats that provide ants, termites, and water. Thankfully, their conservation status is currently of a non-threatened status.

John Wible, PhD, is the curator of the Section of Mammals at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. John’s research is focused on the tree of life of mammals, understanding the evolutionary relationships between living and extinct taxa, and how the mammalian fauna on Earth got to be the way it is today. He uses his expertise on the anatomy of living mammals to reconstruct the lifeways of extinct mammals. John lives with his wife and two sons in a house full of cats and rabbits in Ross Township.

#carnegie museum of natural history #aardvark #mammal #mammals #africa #orycteropus afer

[ioseee]

Aardvark.

#aardvark #taxidermy #southafrica #orycteropus afer

[arthistoryanimalia]

It's #NationalAardvarkWeek! Besides being one of my favorite mammals, it's also the most evolutionarily distinct one (more on that below). Stay tuned for more aardvark art and info all week long! 😎 #AardvarksAareAawesome

"Erdferkel," Plate 14 in Brehms thierleben, allgemeine kunde des thierreichs, 1876-9. Biodiversity Heritage Library.

#DYK the Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is the only living representative of an entire ORDER of mammals, Tubulidentata? This helped it score as the #1 most evolutionarily distinctive (ED) mammal on ZSL's EDGE of Existence list:

[FYI the only other mammal order with a single living member is Microbiotheria, represented by the Monito del Monte (Dromiciops gliroides) - however they have more living relatives one step out in superorder Australidelphia than the Aardvark does in the Afrotheria.]

#aardvark #mammals #mammalogy #zoology #Tubulidentata #Microbiotheria #Monito del Monte #Australidelphia #Afrotheria #ZSL #EDGE of Existence #evolutionarily distinctive #illustration #book illustration #European art #German art #19th century art #lithograph #print #National Aardvark Week #Aardvarks Aare Aawesome #animals in art

[amnhnyc]

The aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is one for a nighttime snack. This mostly nocturnal animal spends the day sleeping in its burrow, but at night it springs into action, consuming as many as 50,000 insects in one evening!🐜 It uses its 1-foot- (0.3-meter)-long tongue to scoop up ants and termites, which it swallows whole. It lives in parts of southern Africa including Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, where it inhabits grassland and savannas. This expert digger can excavate more than 1.7 feet (0.5 meters) in 15 seconds—which comes in handy when it’s looking for its next meal, making a place to nap, escaping from predators, or creating elaborate tunnels where moms give birth to young. Photo: Albert Herbigneaux, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr #AnimalFacts #Aardvark #NaturalHistory #AnimalKingdom #DYK https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca8hHodgi3Z/?utm_medium=tumblr

#animalfacts #aardvark #naturalhistory #animalkingdom #dyk