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aardvark

[ahrd-vahrk] / ˈɑrdˌvɑrk /
NOUN
nocturnal animal
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People have examined aardvark DNA in the past for studies of mammalian evolution, but never across wild populations.

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

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

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

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

A team of researchers recently analyzed the longevities and lifestyles of nearly 1,000 species of mammals, ranging from aardvarks to zebras.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 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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