Study confirms that ant-eating aardvarks have a craving for buried melons

Mongabay
Feb 25, 2025, 10:38 am133 pts
A new study has used camera-trap footage and scent analysis to confirm the unusual relationship between an African melon and the aardvark, an elusive ant-eating mammal found in sub-Saharan Africa. Cucumbers and similar melon-like plants generally display their fruits aboveground, but an African melon (Cucumis…

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