Harvester Termites will forage midday on cool autumn and winter days and it was for this reason that we were witness to an extraordinary sight of an aardvark doing a perfect somersault!

The aardvark, usually a nocturnal animal, came out to feast on termites. It is probable that while eating them the many soldiers and workers, with their strong jaws, were climbing up onto his/her body and being an irritation. To dislodge them a perfect somersault resulted!