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
Epps other hope for further research: to see an aardvark in the wild.
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
Researchers compared the genomes of these mammals with those of a diverse assortment of others, including an aardvark, a meerkat, a star-nosed mole and a human.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
I read my entire children’s encyclopedia, drilling from aardvark to zymurgy.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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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
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
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
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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