James Blunt

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

You're beautiful

Bollocks, I have ran out of up votes.

[kaosmark2]

Has anyone ever tasted aardvark? I'm curious as to what it would be like.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Has anyone ever tasted aardvark? I'm curious as to what it would be like.

I gobbled one to completion for a £10 once, does that count as tasting?

Apart from that bit of nonsense the only thing I can establish is the following;

Many African tribes hunt the aardvark for its meat and use various body parts as charms—the teeth are believed to prevent illnesses. Other animals like lions, hyenas, and leopards are its natural predators in the wild.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

I gobbled one to completion for a £10 once, does that count as tasting?

Aardvark porn! Why does every thread on efestivals end up talking about Aardvark porn????

Edited January 21, 2015 by Ted Dansons Wig

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

The Theory of Inevitability

Everything is inevitable therefore predictable. Everything is predictable therefore inevitable.

[Katster]

James, I hope you're enjoying this as much as the rest of us

[Ted Dansons Wig]

[gary1979666]

That aardvark is nowhere near as sexy as the one posted earlier - the stumpy arms and legs are such a turn off.

Maybe the Sun should run with a topless aarvark on page 3?!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

That aardvark is nowhere near as sexy as the one posted earlier - the stumpy arms and legs are such a turn off.

I'm right with you on this one. The previous one has great upright ears that you could grab on to like a space hopper, making the 'ride' that much more maneagable. That secure set up is positively a health and safety officers dream.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

One for the laydees...

Edited January 22, 2015 by Ted Dansons Wig

[LondonTom]

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I think this aardvark has got the wrong end of the stick as far as dark rooms go;

[gary1979666]

There's so much wrong with that picture!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

There's so much wrong with that picture!

That's exactly what I thought when I first saw it. It's not a viewpoint I have moved away from either.

[Guest]

'Aard as fook

[Ted Dansons Wig]

'Aard as fook

Well he's a cheery trendy little chap. WHERES HIS FUCKING EARS???

You aren't trying to pass off no anteater on us are you Lawn?

[Ted Dansons Wig]

He's a snide twat that lawn!!!

Don't be buying anything from him. You never know what it's truly cut with. Fucking mancs!

So thats a Manc Aardvark? I thought that was a sheepskin jacket behind him.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

We are all Aardvarks

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

This is actually interesting. To me.

What's the difference between an anteater and an aardvark?

If you were invited to a pot luck dinner hosted by a group of aardvarks, anteaters and armadillos, you could just walk outside, find your nearest anthill and scoop a pile of it into a serving dish. Although preventing the ants from crawling all over the dinner table might be a challenge, your culinary contribution would be readily appreciated. That's because these animals are part of a group of mammals that have a particular palate for ants, as the anteater's name implies. In fact, there are only 22 species of animals described as myrmecophagous, or termite- and ant-eating [source: Redford].

Out of that group of 22, anteaters and aardvarks are often lumped together as assumed relatives. People may even refer to aardvarks as "anteaters." Granted, they share similar facial features like elongated snouts and tongues. The anteater's tongue can extend up to 24 inches (60 centimeters) to probe inside anthills and extract ants by the hundreds. Anteaters can flick their tongues in and out of the hill as fast as 150 times per minute [source: Cohn]. At that rate, they may consume 30,000 ants and termites in one day [source: San Diego Zoo].

­The aardvark's tongue is about half as long since its body is generally smaller than an anteater's, but it still gets the job done. Both animals' hollow snouts produce a suctioning effect to help suck angry termites and ants quickly out of the mounds and into their mouths. Enlarged salivary glands produce thick, sticky saliva that traps the insects on the tongues.

Anteaters and aardvarks also share sensory similarities. It doesn't take keen eyesight to spot immobile food targets like anthills and termite mounds. Accordingly, both species have lackluster vision but powerful olfactory senses, which allow them to sniff out their subterranean meals. Once they locate their food source, aardvarks and anteaters can use their strong front claws to rip into the mound and start lapping up the tasty ants or termites. By striking deeply and quickly into the insect fortresses, anteaters' and aardvarks' sneak attacks help them avoid the wrath of soldier ants that deliver stinging bites.

But just because two people enjoy eating the same foods with the same utensils doesn't mean they're cut from the same genetic cloth. Rather, they use comparable mechanisms to feed themselves. The same goes with the anteater and aardvark.