On 20th July 2008, we spent a few hours in the North Carolina Zoo. It was a hot day and we did not want to run around to see everything in the zoo. So, we took it easy and then we saw things we usually would not pay attention to such as this sculpture. This bronze sculpture was created by Chris Gabriel in 2007. It is Aardvark or African ant bear.African ant bears eat ants and and termites. They have the skill to locate ground-dwelling insects. They use their claws to tear insect mounds apart and take advantage of their long snouts and sticky tongues to pick up their food.
We have been in many zoos before but we have not seen a live African ant bear. If not this sculpture, we would not know anything about that wonderful creature.
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