aardvark
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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
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
For the first time in more than 35 years, an aardvark pup was born at the San Diego Zoo.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 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
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A viewing gallery will show everything from penguin health checks to ultrasounds on pregnant aardvarks and even porpoise post-mortems - things never before seen publicly in the UK.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Thus, they found aardvarks may disperse up to 55 km from where they are born.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2023
The changes provided a foundation for later adaptations to feed on plants and larger animals; over time these pioneers became the Mesozoic equivalents of otters, raccoons, flying squirrels and aardvarks.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 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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