The name means "earth pig" in Afrikaans and their short, powerful limbs with shovel-shaped claws make them excellent diggers In the wild their burrows can be up to 13 metres long An aardvark's ...

The mammals are nocturnal so they spend daylight hours in the burrows they dig with their sharp claws, and come out to eat ...

Aardvarks subsist almost entirely on a diet of termites and, occasionally supplementing their water intake by snacking on the fruit of an aardvark cucumber. They emerge from their burrows as ...

Researchers, who monitored the aardvarks with tiny sensors attached to implanted computer chips, said some birds, reptiles and other animals use aardvark burrows to escape extreme temperatures, ...

Aye-Aye is a unique nocturnal animal that's native to Madagascar. It has large eyes and bat like ears. It uses its elongated finger to find insects in tree bark. Agouti is a rodent like mammal that's ...