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Aardvarks
Although sometimes referred to as an anteater, the aardvark is actually a different animal. Aardvarks are a nocturnal African mammal.
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Aardvarks eat termites, ants , and one kind of fruit,called an aardvark cucumber. The aardvark cucumber is also called an aardvark pumpkin. Aardvarks find a termite or ant nest by walking along,swinging its head from side to side. When it smells a concentration of ants or termites,it follows the scent to where the colony is,and then begins to dig into the nest with its powerful claws.After that, it licks up the insects with its tough tongue.They can eat up to 50,00 termites and/or ants in one night.
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How many children do aardvarks have?
It is a mammal from Africa with four legs close to a anteater google aardvark and click on the title that only says aardvark and read about them there habbitat, what they eat and more you can seach olther cool animals to!
What is the color of an aardvark?
An aardvark is normally a pale yellowish gray, although it may be stained various shades of earth colors depending on the soil in which it burrows.
Aardvarks can squeak but they choose not to. Instead of squeaking, which would attract their natural predators (wild boars and ocelots), they emit an incredibly low frequency sound undetectable by other animals. The aardvarks then use a fairly complex language to transmit messages.
What is the life span of aardvarks in captivity?
over 24 years in captivity. i am not sure about in the wild.
How do you help endangered aardvarks?
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Slideshow~Aardvark~Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superorder: Afrotheria
Order: Tubulidentata
Family: Orycteropodidae
Genus: Orycteropus
Species:O. afer
PHYSICAL CHARACTERRISTICS:
Aardvarks have elongated, or stretched-out, heads with a pig-like snout and tubular ears. Their muscular, arched bodies are protected by a thick, grayish brown skin that is covered with bristles. The front feet have four toes as well as sharp claws, while the back feet have five toes. The cone-shaped tail is short and tapered, smaller at the end. The long tongue is sticky to help catch insects
Aardvarks have elongated, or stretched-out, heads with a pig-like snout and tubular ears. Their muscular, arched bodies are protected by a thick, grayish brown skin that is covered with bristles. The front feet have four toes as well as sharp claws, while the back feet have five toes. The cone-shaped tail is short and tapered, smaller at the end. The long tongue is sticky to help catch insects. Adult aardvarks are 67 to 79 inches (170 to 200 centimeters) long and weigh anywhere from 88 to 143 pounds (40 to 65 kilograms).
The word aardvark means "earth pig" in Dutch. In addition to having a pig-like snout, this mammal resembles a pig in the way it uses its front feet to dig. Like the tail, the snout tapers at the end, and it has two nostrils that can be closed. Although the legs are short, they are powerful-strong enough to break through rock-solid termite mounds. The back legs are slightly longer than the front legs. Despite having soles on the hind feet, aardvarks move on their toes and use the front feet, with their long claws, for digging.
How fast does an aardvark run?
Aardvark (orycteropus afer) also known as Earth Pig and Ant Bear run in a zigsag fashion to elude their enemies. Aardvarks are not fast runners but with their short powerful legs and long blunt claws they can quickly dig a defensive burrow.
What are facts about an aardvark?
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.
aardarks eat insects,inscets are animals, therefor aardvarks are carnivores.
What do you get when you mix an aardvark and a platypus?
You cannot intermix species which are literally worlds and classifications apart.
Aardvarks, despite having relatively short legs, have tremendous thrust due to evolved, densely coiled muscles in their feet. They act as a sort of "spring" to lift the aardvark into the air at high speeds.
Aardvarks eat termites and underground fruit. Probably as a source of water.
Are there any humans in the cartoon series Arthur about the 8 year old Aardvark?
Arthur in the Marc Brown books and TV show isn't a monkey, he's an aardvark. There is a series of books with a monkey character named Arthur by Lillian Hoban.<br><p></p><p>
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What is the difference between an aardvark and an anteater?
they are the same thing. An anteater is another way of saying aardvark
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Aardvarks are not native to North Carolina or anywhere in the United States; they are primarily found in sub-Saharan Africa. These nocturnal mammals are known for their long snouts and specialized diet of ants and termites. If you encounter aardvarks in North Carolina, they would likely be in a zoo or wildlife sanctuary rather than in the wild.
What is the aardvark's favorite food?
Also known as the anteater, it feeds almost exclusively on ants and termites.
