Aardvarks have narrow heads and long snouts.
Their ears are large and hearing acute. The short, stout legs, partially-webbed feet, and long claws are well suited for burrowing large sleeping dens and for tearing apart mounds of the ants and termites on which it feeds with its long sticky tongue. Aardvarks are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, usually in open country. They are shy, nocturnal creatures. The female bears one or two young in October or November.