#aardvarks

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Mammals

Tubulidentata. This order is made up of aardvarks, medium-sized mammals with long snouts that feed on ants and termites.

Afroinsectivora. This order contains small mammals that eat insects, such as the tenrec, golden mole, and the elephant shrew, which is more closely related to elephants than to actual shrews.

#animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #aardvarks #mammals #tetrapods #elephant shrews #Tubulidentata #Afroinsectivora #0x30v0xcf #animal tournament #Animal Tournament Round 1

[heartless-aro]

what's the story behind aardvarks and yellow roses?

Yellow Roses

Ok so yellow roses are a bit more straightforward to explain, so I’m gonna start there. Outside of the aromantic community, yellow roses traditionally symbolize friendship. Because of this symbolism, when the first aromantic flag (the four stripe flag with green, yellow, orange, and black, shown below) was published on the website for the National Coalition for Aromantic Visibility (NCAV), the flag included a yellow stripe which represented romantic friendship, friends with benefits, friendship dating, and queerplatonic relationships.

The redesigns of the flag also included a yellow stripe (to represent lithromantics) though I’m not sure whether this was at all inspired by the yellow stripe in the original flag (if anyone knows please lmk). Still, it’s an interesting piece of aro history for sure. We still see yellow being used to represent platonic attraction sometimes (notably, on the queerplatonic flag), so there could be some link there as well (though that’s a bit of speculation).

Before the “ace discourse” era on here, I also used to see yellow roses by themselves being used as a symbol of aromanticism by aromantics due to platonic love being intrinsic to how many people experience their aromanticism. It wasn’t as common of a symbol as, say, aardvarks or spades, but it was common enough to be recognizable as a symbol. It was especially used as a symbol of platonic love and attraction within the aro community, as one might expect. Here’s a screenshot of one instance of this that I found digging through old posts by @aromanticaardvark on Wayback Machine. The post is from 2015.

I’m not sure why, but I’ve always personally liked the yellow roses as an aro symbol even if I don’t entirely relate to the platonic love symbolism (in fact, I could be considered aplatonic, though I don’t often label myself as such).

I actually use the blue roses in my header as a nod to the old yellow rose symbol, in case anyone was curious about that. (I chose blue roses instead of yellow since, as I said, the platonic love symbolism isn’t particularly relatable to me. Plus blue roses are often used to symbolize unattainable or unrequited love, which I thought was fitting since I myself am unattainable, and any romantic feelings directed towards me will forever be unrequited).

Aardvarks

So, I’m about 90% sure that the aardvark symbol was started by @aromanticaardvark, who used to be one of the big name blogs in the aro community (though their blog has been inactive since 2016). Back when advice animal memes were a thing, the person behind the Aromantic Aardvark blog used to post aromantic-themed advice animal memes which featured an aardvark. (An example of one such meme originally posted on the Aromantic Aardvark blog in 2011 is shown below).

In 2015, Aromantic Aardvark received the anonymous ask “What does the aardvark have to do with it?” to which they replied “Nothing, really, it’s just alliterative. Aromantic Aardvark was founded when advice animals were a common meme here on tumblr, and my friend and I thought it’d be funny if there were an aromantic meme. That aspect of the blog eventually went away however, and it became more of a general resource/advice blog for aro spectrum people.” This would seem to imply that the use of aardvarks to symbolize aromantics originated on the Aromantic Aardvark tumblr blog.

This would make sense seeing as Aromantic Aardvark was one of the early aromantic blogs, and was even linked on the NCAV website back in 2014.

Aardvarks were used pretty commonly as an aromantic symbol for a while. Notably, the AroPlane forum, where a lot of early discussions about aromantic symbols and flag redesigns took place, used a drawing of an aardvark in its website banner (see below).

I’m honestly not quite sure when aardvarks started to decline in use as an aromantic symbol though.

#aro #aromantic #aro symbols #aro history #aardvarks #yellow roses #asks #long post #my post

[enteringdullsville]

So I was binge watching Drawfee while I drew and I came upon the ice cream bar episode, and they brought up how Arthur only vaguely resembles an actual aardvark, and then I started thinking of that one episode with the spelling bee where Art came up with a song to memorize how to spell the word “aardvark”. Then I started wondering how he, at the age of 8-9, couldn’t spell the name of his own species…and then I remembered the finale where it’s implied everyone’s just drawn as an animal as a stylistic choice, meaning he thought back to that one incident and created his entire family’s character design based on that one inside joke.

#drawfee #arthur #arthur read #aardvarks

[beastsposting]

source

#aardvarks #aardvark #video #animals #animals on tumblr #weird animals #cute #aww #mammals #funny #ant bears #cape anteater

[flockofteeth]

screaming and sobbing with joy LOOK AT THIS FUCKING THING

#aardvarks #tiktok #incredible #best #cute animals #zoo animals #wildlife

[antiqueanimals]

Towns Down Underground. Written by Gene Stuart. Illustrated by James Harris. 1991.

#hyenas #aardwolves #afrotheria #aardvarks #reptiles #lizards #James Harris

[animalsandanimals]

Aardvark

The aardvark is a nocturnal mammal found in Africa. It uses its powerful claws to burrow into the ground in search of ants and termites. It will also burrow to escape predators, and can dig a 2 ft deep hole in under 30 seconds. It is surprisingly good at swimming and an extremely fast runner.

activewild.com

#aardvark #aardvarks #african wildlife #animals #animal #wildlife photography #animal photography

[petsincollections]

New born aardvark at Crandon Park Zoo

Zoo Miami

Government Resource and Information Department, Florida International University

FIU Libraries DPanther Repository

#aardvarks #newborn aardvarks #zoo miami #fiu libraries #crandon park zoo

[anteatermoment]

hello

#aardvark #aardvarks #cute animals #cute animal

[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

[ultrakart]

Aardvark Miraculous where the kwami is called Aardvark

You have the biggest brain.

You also know too much.

#ml #miraculous ladybug #asks #aardvarks

[myplasticadversary]

Drew an aardvark for practice :)

#if you're wondering about the things above i was just drawing the alphabet weird #aardvarks #i draw things

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

#good omens #gos3 #season 3 #s3 not plot #not plot #arnold the animated aardvark #funny #3ep1

[cordoba-pnytd]

#epic #cool #animals #meme #funny #nature #awesome #silly #silly guy #dope #extreme sports #armadillo #aardvark #aardvarks

[tagerrkix]

Eden was their ✨disney princess era✨

#it's canon #source: it was revealed to me in a dream #aziraphale being good with reptiles was all part of the ineffable plan #crowley is having the time of his life here #my only regret is that I forgot to include a baby aardvark #but I put ducklings there instead #aardvarks will have to wait #btw the snake aziraphale is holding is my pet snake that died in 2020 #my poor precious baby she was such a sweetheart #she liked to knock the thermometer off the glass and hide it #I was supposed to draw like an ordinary garter snake there buuut #it's MY silly doodle and I get to do what the heck I want with it 👁️👁️ #lmao crowley's brain is really malfunctioning here #guys he's a demon the creature of darkness foul fiend devil serpent #guys he can't get up the lamb is sleeping #somebody save him #there are vicious animals #and she's exp- #*JUMPS OUT THE WINDOW AND FLIES AWAY* #hey where the fuck is the gecko going #aziraphale #good omens fanart #crowley #aziracrow #good omens #ineffable husbands

[pridescrolling]

PLEASE DO NOT TAG OR SEND TO NEIL GAIMAN

I made you a gift!

It's a cheesy bumpersticker style nudge to STOP SENDING NEIL GAIMAN

- fan therories about season 2/3

- your own theories about season 2/3

- other people's theories about season 2/3 (ESPECIALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION)

- your wants for season three

- things you don't want for season three (other people might want that!)

- YOUR FAN FICTIONS OR FAN ART

He has repeatedly asked not to bring these things to him. And even though his answers can be funny it can get him into legal trouble if what ends up in the show is similar to fan art/fics/creations

Please! Stop!

Bonus

Feel free to spread these around I'm so tired of the second hand embarrassment

#2k notes #1k notes #wow thanks! #good omens #good omens asks #NG #good omens theories #good omens theory #crowley #aardvark #lou rants