The baby is born without hair and stays inside the burrow for at least two weeks. It drinks the mother s milk for about four months and then begins to eat insects. When a young male aardvark is about six months old, he goes out on his own. Young females stay with their mothers, until she has another baby. Then the young one digs a burrow close by and continues to hunt and socialize with her mother and other females.
Female aardvarks tend to live in one area for their lifetime, while males wander around.
Aardvarks sleep during the day, and are active at night. This makes them a nocturnal animal. If the nights are cold, sometimes they will come out in the daylight to lie in the sun and get warm. They cannot see well. They are burrowing animals, because they like to dig into the ground.