humifructus is known as erdvarkkomkommer, or “aardvark cucumber.” To verify the aardvark’s role, the new study deployed camera traps on a farm in Namibia at three kinds of sites: those where C.

Aardvarks subsist almost entirely on a diet of termites and, occasionally supplementing their water intake by snacking on the fruit of an aardvark cucumber. They emerge from their burrows as ...