Long snout, eats ants? I think we met last year at Cannes...
Aardvark: noun a nocturnal, insectivorous mammal, Orycteropus afer, with large ears, a long snout, and a long tongue, native to sub-Saharan Africa. [Afrikaans from aarde earth + vark pig] — Canadian Oxford Dictionary
Aardvarks - More Than Just an Anteater
Aarvarks in Popular Culture
Aarvarks have a firm place in popular culture, even in areas where the Aardvark has never lived wild. Perhaps it's the comical long nose... or the name with a double-vowel at the front?To get the first listing in the telephone directory, companies choose AARDVARK for a business name almost as often as they go the Triple-A route.
But read on, and you'll see that the Noble AArdvark has stolen our collective hearts in many other artistic and cultural pursuits... from music to art... from conventional fiction to graphic novels... and beyond!
About the Aardvark
What kind of strange animal is this?
Aardvarks can weigh between 88 to 143 pounds, stand 24 inches high at the shoulder, and live up to 23 years in captivity.
Aardvarks are also known as antbears. They are sometimes confused with the South American anteater, because they look very much like those long-nosed sticky-tongued insect-eating mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae and both eat ants and termites.
Aardvark Predators
When Bad Things Happen to Good Aardvarks
Aardvark flesh is relished by several African tribes and many parts of the aardvark body are used as charms: the teeth are believed to prevent illness and bad luck. (The possession of aardvark teeth does not seem to bring particularly good luck to the hunted aardvark, however.)
Aardvark Apparel
Look, there's an Aardvark on you!
Groovy Aardvark
- Interview with Vincent Peake
- Stephane Bélanger's lively interview (January 2000?) with Groovy Aardvark's frontman bassman/singer Vincent Peake.
- A Fan Remembers Groovy Aardvark
- Sébastien Ferland writes eloquently of the history of Groovy Aardvark, its impact on the Montreal music scene, the evolution of the group's sound, and its eventual sad dissolution.
- Farewell to Groovy Aardvark
- Here in French (or here, in English, roughly translated by Google) is the epitaph of Groovy Aardvark, with YFB Communications' announcement of the rock band's final album and farewell tour.
Groovy Aardvark Retro Rock
1986-91 Fast Times at Longueuil High
definitive hardcore Quebecois-Canadian rock
Release Date: 10/24/2000
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Adopt an Aardvark
Help keep this aardvark living in style at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo. A $50 adoption donation will get you a 5" x 7" glossy colour photo of your adopted aardvark, a fun factsheet, a personalized certificate of adoption, a sticker, your name on the zoo's Adopt-An-Animal donor board for one year, and an invitation to an after-hours party held in August at the zoo. Aardvarks at the Salad Bar
Aardvark Cucumber / Aardvark Pumpkin
Aardvarks in Children's Literature
There's more to aardvarks in kids' books than just that annoying little Arthur the Aardvark dweeb.
No One Told the Aardvark
by Deborah Eaton -- Ages 4-8 -- No one tells an aardvark not to stick out its tongue! A young boy wishes that he were an animal so that no one would tell him what to do.1 point
AA Is for Aardvark
by Mark Shulman -- Ages 4-8 -- The aardvark plays with double-lettered words all the way through the alphabet, then sleeps with a Zz...1 point
Aster Aardvark's Alphabet Adventures
by Steven Kellogg -- Ages 4-8 -- Aster Aardvark is the main character in a alphabetically inspired romp through the world of language and imagination...1 point
Noah's Aardvark
by Mary Jane Auch (Illustrator) -- Preschool -- When an aardvark loses his spot on Noah's ark, he tries a lot of silly disguises to sneak on board.0 points
Awkward Aardvark
by Adrienne Kennaway (Illustrator)-- Ages 9-12 -- The story of how the aardvark came to sleep during the day and eat termites at night.0 points
Aardvark Toys
Plush Stuffed Animals and Collectible Aardvark Figurines
Safari Ltd. Wild Safari Jungle Aardvark
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Coca Cola Ardie the Aardvard Niger #0248
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Noah's Pals: Aardvark
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Aardvark Vocabulary
We looked up the big words, so you don't have to.
Afrikaans = the native language of the Afrikaner people, white South Africans of Dutch descent. The Afrikaans language developed from Dutch, and it is an official language of the Republic of South Africa.Insectivorous = insect-eating
Mammal = any one of the group of warm-blooded vertebrates (animals with a backbone) Mammalia, named for the mammary or milk glands. All female mammals feed their young with milk.
Nocturnal = active at night
Predator = animal that preys on (hunts or kills) others for food
Sub-Saharan Africa = that part of the continent of Africa that lies south of (sub below) the Sahara Desert.
The Sahara is the largest desert in the world, a vast area of dry, sand-covered land that covers some 3.5 million square miles — it stretches from the Atlantic Ocean east to the Red Sea, and from the Mediterranean and the Atlas Mountains south to the Sudan.
Sub-Saharan Africa is more tropical in climate, hot and humid and teeming with interesting forms of life — like the aardvark!
A Selection of Other Aardvarks
Just for Fun
- I Found the Aardvark... in Massachusetts
- The Wanderer newspaper, "serving the communities of Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester in Southeastern Massachusetts" invites you to hunt down an aardvark cartoon in their pages for a chance to win a stuffed aardvark toy and coffee mug.
- Royalty-Free Aardvark Clip Art
- Clip art of funny cartoon aardvarks
- More Free Aardvark Clip Art
- More clip art of funny cartoon aardvarks
- Faux Aardvark Head Trophy
- It may be impossible to keep an aardvark as a pet, but "through the magic of imagination" you can have one on your wall: Animalhead.com does a goofy aardvark head sculpture to display like a hunter's trophy... maybe if the hunter was Dr. Sueuss!
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