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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

In a just-published paper in Diversity and Distribution, the researchers used genetic information gleaned from 104 aardvark poop samples to begin to understand the range of where they live.

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

“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

Despite often being compared to pigs and South American anteater, aardvarks are not related to them.

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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