What are facts about an aardvark?

Answer 1

An aardvark's tongue can be up to 12 inches (30.5 centimeters) long and is sticky to help extract termites from their mound.

Their name comes from South Africa's Afrikaans language and means "earth pig."

They have very soft teeth, without hard enamel, and are a mammal with teeth that have no roots. The teeth grow and are replaced during the aardvark's whole lifetime.

Aardvarks bark and grunt. To call their babies, they often bark in a high-pitch.

Aardvarks eat termites,ants, and fruit that is found underground.

Answer 2

10 interesting facts you may not know about Aardvarks:

• Aardvark is generally the first noun in the English dictionary, and is worth 16 points in Scrabble
• The species dates back to the Miocene period (5 - 23M BC), and is the last Survivor of primeval hoofed animals
• Aardvarks live in sub-Saharan Africa, anywhere there are termites
• An Aardvark only has 4 toes on its front feet
• Aardvarks are nocturnal, living in burrows during the day and are very rarely seen
• In addition to ants, Aardvarks also eat a type of fruit called the Aardvark Cucumber
• Aardvarks can eat up to 50,000 ants in one night
• A 'Blue Aardvark' was featured in the Pink Panther Cartoons
• The name Aardvark comes from the Afrikaans for 'Earth Pig'
• Aardvarks are good swimmers and will walk up to 30km in a single night