Pangolins and Aardvarks Search for Termites | 4K UHD | Seven Worlds One Planet | BBC Earth

thank you the Kalahari Desert here food is more plentiful but it's hidden [Music] villain [Music] she can collect food that others can't reach a keen sense of smell enables her to detect the presence of ants and termites in their nests beneath the sand thank you [Music] her sticky tongue some 30 centimeters long enables her to collect them from deep underground foreign [Music] the drier it gets the deeper the termites live many are way beyond the reach of even a panklin but not of an aardvark [M

usic] it's the world's largest burrowing animal [Music] sense of smell is Extreme extreme a shovel-like Claws and Powerful legs enabled it to dig down to depths of five or six meters foreign Aardvark needs to eat about 50 000 termites every day [Music] termites are highly nutritious and full of moisture and they can be collected here year round Aardvark are usually nocturnal but the fact that this one is foraging in daylight is a sign that food is scarce recent droughts in the Kalahari have led

to low termite numbers and as a consequence aardvarks here are close to Salvation changes in the world's climate are affecting many of Africa's animals it's predicted that in the next Century southern Africa will warm twice as much as the global average [Music] the future will be Bleak for those that cannot adapt fast enough [Music]