Bug? Or just odd design choice?

[Dinocanid]

Aardvarks can use the artificial termite mound...but not the natural one? Seems really strange

 

[Dinocanid]

I went ahead and made a bug report for it because it makes way too little sense to be intentional:

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Hopefully the devs see it and it doesn't expire