### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Aardvark
* Most aardvarks eat ants
  - first solid food
  - excavate own burrows
  - feed on ants
* Most aardvarks has-part claws
* Most aardvarks have diets
  - light weight
* Most aardvarks have long noses
  - slender noses
  - snouts
  - hide in burrows
* Most aardvarks look like animals
  - remain in burrows
* Most aardvarks use protrude tongues
  - wormlike tongues
* Some aardvarks detect predators.
* Some aardvarks dig holes
  - eat fruit
* Some aardvarks have cavities
  - cheek teeth
  - distribution
  - lobes
  - olfactory lobes
  - keep burrows
* Some aardvarks live in burrows
  - zoos
  - make milk
  - occur in habitats
* Some aardvarks reach maturity
  - stay with mothers
* also dig to get food
  - eat locusts and a type of grasshopper
  - require sandy soil, as opposed to rocks, so that they can dig for termites and ants
* are a nocturnal creature
  - about the size of a small pig
  - an efficient termite eating machine
  - capable of burrows
  - carnivores as they feed upon termites
  - classified as omnivores, but they are far more specialized than that
  - excellent burrowers, using their thick claws on their forefeet
  - found in Africa, south of the Sahara desert
  - generally solitary but the young accompany the mother for a long time after birth
  - grey-brown in colour with a sparse pelage on the back and flanks
  - known for their digging abilities
  - located throughout central and southern Africa, south of the Sahara Desert
  - mammals found in many parts of Africa
  - mostly solitary and nocturnal
  - native to Africa living mainly in the sub-Saharan areas
* are nocturnal , which means they are awake at night and asleep during the day
  - and sleep during the day curled in a tight circle in the burrow
  - omnivorous, meaning they eat both plants and animals
  - placentals
  - powerful animals
  - predominantly solitary and nocturnal
  - quadrupeds
  - solitary and territorial, coming together only to breed
* are solitary animals and only come together to mate
  - they are active at night
* are solitary, except when accompanied by young, and are very shy
  - nocturnal mammals that feed primarily on termites and ants
  - specialized for eating termites
  - strange and unusual creatures
* are the last survivors of a group of primitive ungulates
  - only ant-eaters with teeth
  - very gentle animals
* do fall prey to lions as well as to indigenous people who find their flesh very palatable.
  - mostly ants and termites
* excavate burrows
  - upon ants and termites
* give birth to one offspring at a time.
* handle captivity well.
* have a bulky body, an arched back, long ears, and a long snout
  - good sense of smell and hearing
  - superficial resemblance to a long snouted pig
  - appearances
  - big ears and short necks
  - excellent hearing but poor eyesight
* have four sharp, spoon-shaped claws on their front feet and five on their hind feet
  - toes on the front feet and five toes on their back feet
* have long extensible tongues
  - long, cylindrical, pig-like noses that they use to help locate their next meal
  - narrow heads and long snouts
  - rather primitive brains that are very small for the size of the animal
  - shovel-shaped claws for digging
  - two eyes, one located on either side of their long snouts
  - unusual appearances
* includes brains
  - sterna
* keep their homes clean.
* like to live in open grasslands or savannahs where the soil is soft and sandy.
* live in African savannas , open grasslands , woodlands, and scrub
  - savannas, grasslands, woodlands, and bush
  - the ground
  - throughout Africa, south of the Sahara
* make their homes in burrows dug beneath the soil.
* occur in a variety of habitats including grassy plains, woodland and savannah.
* often change the layout of the main burrows.
* only have an amount of short coarse hair.
* search for food
* sleep during the day, and are active at night.
* spend most of the day in the burrow and emerge shortly before or after sunset to feed.
* swallow their food whole, without chewing it.
* use claws
  - their sense of smell and hearing to help locate the insects
+ Aardvark, Life: Mammals
  * Aardvarks eat mostly ants and termites. They have a long sticky tongue which makes it easy to pick up many ants at once.