The aardvark ( Orycteropus afer ) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa.

The aardvark is not closely related to the pig ; rather, it is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata, in which it is usually considered to form one variable species of the genus Orycteropus, the sole surviving genus in the family Orycteropodidae.

The aardvark is not closely related to the South American anteater, despite sharing some characteristics and a superficial resemblance.

The aardvark is vaguely pig-like in appearance.

The aardvark is pale yellowish-gray in color and often stained reddish-brown by soil.

Genetically speaking, the aardvark is a living fossil, as its chromosomes are highly conserved, reflecting much of the early eutherian arrangement before the divergence of the major modern taxa.

The Egyptian god Set is said, by some, to have the head of an aardvark or to be part aardvark.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

One of the main characters of the 1969-1971 animated cartoon The Ant and the Aardvark is a blue aardvark voiced by John Byner, doing an impersonation of Jackie Mason.

Although there are many fossil species, the only species surviving today is the aardvark, Orycteropus afer.

The male aardvark is transformed into a female anteater named Elise ( Eliza ).

Ironically, his friend Stephan the aardvark is the nerdiest character in the strip.

Cyril is an aardvark, with a long, pink nose, a ruthless and greedy businessman

Each user must somehow pass the name on to the next, and must somehow " mean " the right individual as they do so ( suppose " Socrates " is the name of a pet aardvark ).

In short, Russell argued that the syntactic form of descriptions ( phrases that took the form of " The aardvark " and " An aardvark ") is misleading, as it does not correlate their logical and / or semantic architecture.

The aardvark is an African mammal, Orycteropus afer.

The hero descends from the sky goddess, and thus represents the sun, its body is often elongated and short legged to represent the aardvark who burrows into the earth like a farmer.

Aardvark is a computer game for the Atari 8-bit Computers, Commodore 64 and Commodore 16 in which the player must collect ant larva using the snout of an aardvark.

Some viewers believe that Arthur wears Bionic Bunny slippers, but this is actually half of a larger joke: Arthur, the aardvark, wears bunny slippers, while Buster, the bunny, wears aardvark slippers.

The kittens are born in dense vegetation, or sheltered locations such as abandoned aardvark burrows.

The closest living relatives of the aardvark are the elephant shrews, along with the sirenians, hyraxes, tenrecs, and elephants.

Dugongs and elephants share a monophyletic group with hyraxes and the aardvark, one of the earliest offshoots of eutherians.

The cartoon follows attempts of a blue aardvark named Aardvark ( voiced by John Byner, impersonating Jackie Mason ) to catch and eat a red ant named Charlie ( also Byner, impersonating Dean Martin ), usually doing so by inhaling with a loud vacuum cleaner sound.

Hart actually drew something of a hybrid — with the long ears of an aardvark and the bushy tail of a giant anteater.

But the usages * a aardvark and * an bear are ungrammatical ( marked with "*" in linguistics ).

* Nocturama with aardvark, tamandua, two-toed sloth, night monkey, armadillo, plains viscacha, Gambian pouched rat, senegal galago, slender loris, Lesser Mouse-deer, rakali and Egyptian fruit bat

An ant will walk along ( six blue squares ), turn into an aardvark ( pink squares ) that would turn into an apple ( yellow squares with " A " in topleft ), and some kids yelled " A!

An aardvark skeleton and mounted specimen at the Natural History Museum of Genoa

The aardvark has been known to sleep in a recently excavated ant nest, which also serves as protection from its predators.

The zoo also organized a four-year mission to Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania, which brought back 157 species and 1, 000 animals including giraffe, African elephant, zebra, wildebeest, oryx, ostrich, Thompson's and Grant's Gazelle, Geochelone tortoises, baboon, and aardvark.

The usages an aardvark and a bear are grammatical.

The scientific name of the aardvark comes from Greek ορυκτερόπους ( orykterópous ) meaning " digging footed " and afer: from Africa.

The aardvark has a long, thin, snakelike, protruding tongue and elaborate structures supporting a keen sense of smell.

The comic book series Cerebus The Aardvark ( created, written and illustrated by Dave Sim ) features an aardvark as its protagonist.

It does not resemble any known creature, although it could be seen as a composite of an aardvark, a donkey, a jackal, or a fennec.

* Don't put the cart before the aardvark.

The series mostly involved the trio's efforts against the industrialist forces of greedy aardvark millionaire Cyril Sneer, who usually tries to destroy the forest for a quick buck.

He is born in secrecy after the death of his father and cast adrift soon after birth.

His birth, education, and fortune, he says, have all been ridiculed simply because he has spoken with the freedom of an Englishman, and he assures the reader that `` whoever talks with me, is speaking to a Gentleman born ''.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

It is hardly necessary to remind students of covered bridges that Timothy Palmer was born in 1751 in nearby Rowley ; ;

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.

Other herpetologists have ascertained that in the northern United States the prairie rattlesnake may not give first birth until it is four or even five years old, and that the young may be born every other year, rather than annually.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

It is also important to realize that many girls are born without a hymen or at most only a tiny trace of one ; ;

But he is a West Point graduate and therefore must be born to command ''.

Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

In the meantime, generations keep being born, bitterness is increased by incompetence, pride, and folly, and the world shrinks around us.

Home is where a man was born, reared, went to school and, most particularly, where grandma is.

I believe, therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ as his personal Saviour is `` born again '' spiritually, with new privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in His likeness forever.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; ;

and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.

Whoever is born of God does not commit sin ( That is, he does not practice sin.