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🗓️ 11 August 2020
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0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Jason Goldman. Got a minute? |
0:39.8 | The art bark is a rare animal, alphabetically at least, where it's the first creature listed in English language dictionaries. |
0:48.5 | And they're usually rarely seen in their African home. But that's because they're nocturnal, solitary, and live |
0:56.0 | in underground boroughs. They're actually fairly common. And in recent years, they're being |
1:01.8 | seen more frequently. While that may be fortunate for tourists and wildlife enthusiasts, |
1:07.8 | it's not really good news for the artvarks themselves. |
1:17.6 | Southern Africa is becoming gradually hotter and drier due to climate change, which is occurring there more rapidly than in other parts of the world. And I therefore chose to dedicate my PhD |
1:24.1 | to investigating how climate change affects the artfark in the hottest and driest habitat |
1:31.3 | in Africa in which they occur, which is the Kalahari semi-desert. |
1:35.6 | Nora Weyer from South Africa's University of the Wittwatersrand. For more than three years, |
1:43.4 | she and her team followed the activities of a dozen |
1:46.3 | ardvarks in the Kalahari via tiny tracking units they implanted in the animals. Artvarks generally |
1:53.8 | sleep during the heat of the day and emerged during the cooler nighttime hours to eat ants and |
1:59.4 | termites. But Veyer found that during a drought, they were likely to be active during the cooler nighttime hours to eat ants and termites. But Veyer found that during a drought, they were likely to be active during the day. |
2:06.5 | The Kalahari is always arid, but one summer a lack of rain caused a big vegetation die-off. |
2:13.8 | Ants and termites disappeared, which made the ardbarks go hungry. |
2:17.4 | Usually the period of the year... Ants and termites disappeared, which made the ardvarks go hungry. |
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