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aardvark

[ahrd-vahrk] / ˈɑrdˌvɑrk /
NOUN
nocturnal animal
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The show’s bespectacled title character is a gentle 8-year-old aardvark who spreads the joy of getting along with others.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

Epps other hope for further research: to see an aardvark in the wild.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2023

The pup “is very active, and was using her sharp claws to dig like an adult aardvark, just hours after her birth,” the lead wildlife care specialist Cari Inserra said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 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

“Wait, what? Do you mean Pedro the aardvark? Or was it someone else?”

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Originally known as shrews, the small African mammals are more closely related to elephants, manatees and aardvarks and were officially renamed as sengi in 1998.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

Thus, they found aardvarks may disperse up to 55 km from where they are born.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 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

An evil trickster behind them has built a fire, by means of which he projects shadows of everything from aardvarks to zebras onto the cave wall in front of the prisoners.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 24, 2021

Human latrines, like those of aardvarks, may have been a testing ground of the first unconscious crop breeders.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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