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Thread: An (Almost) Airborne Aardvark.
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01-09-2020, 14:51 #21
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Re: An (Almost) Airborne Aardvark.
Evolutionary traits are often easy to analyze.
The ears are big but slender, I would suspect since the head is designed to go as far as possible into mounds the ears needs to folk back neatly, and since you must eat a damned amount of ants to justify digging burrowing more than what is required is a waste of energy.
You don't have an armored skin, you cannot outrun a leopard, you live in a burrow and that is your safety, you need to hear predators to make your escape in time, hence I really doubt that hearing would be used for food purposes, with that nose they can probably detect an active nest a mile away.
So the ears cannot be broad, like most other animals with big ears, so to increase the surface area they are simply longer.
That is my opinion anyway, if I had to guess.
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01-09-2020, 15:43 #22
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Re: An (Almost) Airborne Aardvark.
Hi TStone,
A very rare sighting, you are so lucky to have seen one in the wild. Please keep the pics coming
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