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'''Aardvark''' comes from an [[African]] word meaning "earth pig."<ref>http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/aardvark</ref>. A primarily [[nocturnal]] animal, it lives in burrows and feeds on [[ant]]s and [[termite]]s.
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'''Aardvark''' comes from an [[Africaans]] word meaning "earth pig."<ref>http://www.awf.org/content/wildlife/detail/aardvark</ref>. A primarily [[nocturnal]] animal, it lives in burrows and feeds on [[ant]]s and [[termite]]s.
    
It can grow up to 7.5 feet long, has a fleshy, tapering tail, a long tubular snout, large ears and an arched back. The aardvark uses its powerful claws to break open termite nests; then it uses its tongue, coated with sticky saliva, to eat the insects in the nest.<ref>http://library.thinkquest.org/11922/mammals/aardvark.htm</ref>
 
It can grow up to 7.5 feet long, has a fleshy, tapering tail, a long tubular snout, large ears and an arched back. The aardvark uses its powerful claws to break open termite nests; then it uses its tongue, coated with sticky saliva, to eat the insects in the nest.<ref>http://library.thinkquest.org/11922/mammals/aardvark.htm</ref>
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