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Aardvark: Nature's Ant-Eater with a Remarkable Tongue!

One of the most important mammal in the African ecosystem is Aardvark, also known as Orycteropus afer. It is very unique regarding its appearance i.e. long snout, large ears and tail, and a stout body protected in coarse hair. By making use of its powerful claws and sticky tongue, it gets access to his diet including ants and termites. Its name comes from Afrikaans/Dutch for ‘earth pig’, this is because early Europeans considered it as a resembling animal to pig. However, later it was found that there is no such kind of similarity. Read the full article

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