aardvark
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They then used the genetic information to infer aardvark distribution and movement across the landscape.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2023
That was different from some of the other offers he’d received to bring his popular aardvark character to TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
Everyone’s favorite aardvark and his goofy pals made the leap from books to television in 1996 and for 25 seasons maintained an earnest, admirable quest for compassion and learning.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
“She is very active, and was using her sharp claws to dig like an adult aardvark, just hours after her birth,” lead wildlife care specialist Cari Inserra said in the statement.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
Olga only had one boyfriend who I knew of—Pedro, a skinny, little guy who looked like an aardvark, but that was years ago.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
In South Africa, the genetic information they gathered suggested three regional divisions of aardvarks, indicating that animals in western, central and eastern regions of South Africa were somewhat isolated from each other.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2023
Though species that lived in pairs such as Müller’s gibbons tended to live longer than loner species such as aardvarks, group-living species such as elephants generally lived the longest.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2023
The scientists examined animals that lost their full body hair along with others, such as bison, guinea pigs, aardvarks and bears, that have retained full coats of fur.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2023
I haven’t had any encounters with aardvarks, although I think there may be one that lives in an apartment across the street.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2022
For instance, one African melon species is so well adapted to being eaten by a hyena-like animal called the aardvark that most melons of that species grow on the latrine sites of aardvarks.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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