All about Aardvarks
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Aardvarks are just really ugly an pretty unknown so I thought why not write about this special animal on the other hand these animals became, strange enough, my favorite animals. Another reason to found out more about them.
Aardvarks live in almost all parts of Africa Southern from the Sahara.They live in dry savanna's to rain forests. Altough they have many features that are pig-ish like the snout, and their name suggests that they are like pigs they are in no way related. 
In this picture (on the left) is a description of there main features. They've got strong claws to dig burrows. They are as long as average humans and have a sticky tongue to help extract termites (their favorite food) from termiteshills. They are omnivore, can be 50 to 80 kg and live about 23 years. There claws are spades formed to dig.
Aardvarks are nocturnal. They spend the hot African afternoon holed up in their cool underground burrows.
Aardvarks are mammals and female aardvarks give birth every year to one newborn. This newborn will stay with mama for 6 months and then move out digging its own burrow.Aardvarks have to deal with two big challenges: There predators like lions hyena's and leopards but also hunans hunting them for their meat and teeth believed to prevent humans from illness.
The second problem is their decreasing habitat because of roads, agriculture or other human needs.
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