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wanderw

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:53 pm

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Location: Heart - Grootkolk, Soul - KTP, Body - far too far south most of the time!

On our recent Frontier Parks trip we saw this guy near Karoo NP. We could not believe our eyes - in the middle of the day!

Cutest behind in the world!

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Elzet

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:08 pm

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Location: Daar waar die bobbejane hul borshare kam

To all who have contributed, with appreciation. :clap:

And indeed a cute behind. Cute feet too. Cute ears too. Cute snout too. Cute tail too. I so want to see one. * sigh *

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G@mespotter

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:19 am

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Location: Back on earth.....

THIS WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE!! :mrgreen:

WHAT A SIGHTINHG!! :clap:

And tnx for sharing it! :thumbs_up:

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Mant

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:49 am

Joined: Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:34 pm
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Location: Johannesburg

Hi,

What a nice sighting :thumbs_up:

, I've been dying to see one of these.

We've been to the Karoo often to try and see one but with no luck.

Samantha

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DuQues

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:07 am

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Location: Red sand, why do I keep thinking of red sand?

I want to see it too!

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Pumbaa

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:27 pm

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Wanda,

what luck you had :mrgreen:

Of course we want to know alllllllllll about it :dance:

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Meandering Mouse

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:30 pm

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WOW

straight from Winnie the Pooh...

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Guinea Pig

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:46 pm

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Joined: Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:52 pm
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Location: My business...

I am speechless!!!

Congratulations!! :mrgreen:

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wanderw

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:26 pm

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Joined: Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:34 pm
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Location: Heart - Grootkolk, Soul - KTP, Body - far too far south most of the time!

Thanx everyone! :thumbs_up:

We spent the rest of the day grinning from ear to ear!

@Pumbaa - we past a hairy termite mound, and screeched to a halt once we realized termite mounds aren't hairy! :lol:

We crept back to the 'mound' and had a few seconds with the Aardvark(I think he froze trying to figure out the new sounds and smells), before he turned and bounded away. It was nearly noon when we saw him, temperature outside was 10 degrees!

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arks

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:22 am

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Joined: Sun Mar 20, 2005 5:53 pm
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Location: Cambridge, MA (and home from home in Darling, WC)

An amazing sighting, Wanda, and even more amazing that you saw it outside of the park. I'm still often surprised by how much RSA wildlife can be seen outside of national parks, it really does pay to keep your eyes open wherever you are!

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Rusty Justy

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:05 pm

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Location: Sunninghill(JHB), Vaalwater & Beauty(Waterberg), Grahamstown(E.C)

Now thats a sighting I'd sell body parts for :lol:

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cwaw

Post subject: Re: Aardvark

Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:52 pm

Joined: Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:23 am
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On August 18th this year a friend and I took a sunset drive from Malelane camp with the fantastic Stanley. We were heading south along the S114 when we saw an aardvark about 2 meters to the side of our vehicle - in a clearing! We saw it very clearly for the 10 seconds or so that it hung around. It was our guides first sighting of the animal. Some Danish tourists got photos of the aardvark but we due to language barriers we weren't able to swap email addresses. I had a video camera with me but wasn't quick enough to get some footage.

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Cornelious Maguire

Post subject: Has anybody seen an aardvark?

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:07 pm

Joined: Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:17 pm
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Hi
Has any one seen an aardvark in Kruger? I have never heard of one being spotted there. I have seen one once, but that was in Wankie Park in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
Cornelious.

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moggiedog

Post subject: Re: Has anybody seen an aardvark?

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:11 pm

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Joined: Fri May 05, 2006 9:12 am
Posts: 593
Location: Benoni

My son saw one at Tambotie Tented camp crossing the river bed a few years ago

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oddesy

Post subject: Re: Has anybody seen an aardvark?

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:17 pm

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Joined: Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:57 pm
Posts: 3426
Location: Randburg, SA

I have never seen one myself unfortunately

but have spoken to two rangers who have seen them in the malelane skukuza area :thumbs_up:

I remember seeing a photo of one on the forum taken by a forumite :hmz:

cant remember who or where the thread is :hmz:

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