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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain, 100% reason to remember the name - Aardwolf!
Find yourself someone who loves you as much as aardwoof loves aardwolves ❤️
That thing looks like it's either chill as fuck or a complete spaz. I'm not sure which...
Both in varying frequencies
Ah yes, hair metal dog
I love this critter
Eats insects, apparently.
I am assuming it is not in fact actually closely related to a wolf/dog?
Also, this has got me very curious what just a "vark" looks like given the suggested naming scheme going on here.
Both names come from Afrikaans, but the animals are not in any way related. The aardwolf is related to the hyena. It's the hyenas friendly cousin. It mostly eats termites and it's not dangerous. The aardvark lmhas a pig like nose and it burrows like a pig, so "vark" means pig in Afrikaans. The aardvark has no other relation to a pig besides the name.
ah, so "vark" is much like "dog" in english when it is used in animal names like "prairie dog"!
thanks for explaining!
I was gonna say "pig-wolf" sounds kind of goofy but it is actually pretty precise in behavioral desciption then isn't it?
Should be noted that "aard" means "ground/earth"
Thank you
...by contrast to airwolf...
Interesting, doesn't ard also mean "ground/earth" in Arabic? Maybe one of those words that made into the indo-german languages by the Arabic conquest?
That captive aardwolf is scared though. They're not ordinarily puffed up like this. A chill aardwolf is a smooth, slender boi.
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Those are some hackles.
Damn, this guy looks like he's about to sing an 80s power ballad.
That Mohawk is fucking sick
aardwoof did it again.
Call Apogee say Aardwolf