In a message dated 10/23/02 1:44:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, darren.naish@port.ac.uk writes: << Incidentally, the extant species has been split into as many as 18 and the existence of two extant species, _Orycteropus afer_ and _O. capensis_, was supported by some workers as recently as the 1950s. >> Gack. I know nothing about aardarks.