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Although aardvarks look like anteaters, they are actually
related to elephants! But wait ─ what’s an aardvark?
The unusual mammal called the aardvark was named
by South Africans in the 1880s. In the local language,
Afrikaans, ‘aardvark’ means ‘earth pig’. This name quite
accurately describes a large, heavily built animal with
thin hair and short legs, that looks much like a pig.
Aardvarks live in dry places like Africa, south of the
Sahara Desert. The aardvark can reach a length of 1.8
metres. Its head has huge donkeylike ears, a long
snout, and drooping eyelids with long eyelashes.
Aardvarks prefer to sleep during the day in an
underground burrow. At night, they dig underground for
their favourite food: termites. They break open the
termites’ nests with their massive, flattened claws and
then suck up the insects. Female aardvarks give birth to
one baby every year. A few weeks after it is born, the
baby aardvark begins to follow its mother around. It
goes off to live on its own before it is one year old.