AardvarkStatus: Least ConcernThe aardvark's outsize snout is tailor-made to house a foot-long, sticky tongue that's the perfect tool for extracting termites from their mound nests. Bush-meat hunters are fond of eating aardvarks, but the “antbear” (Orycteropus afer) is still relatively common across sub-Saharan Africa. Photographed at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.Buy a print | License this photo
Photograph by Joel Sartore, Nat Geo Image Collection
