AARDVARK

ärdˈvärk [Du.,=ground pig], nocturnal mammal of the genus Orycteropus, sole representative of the order Tubulidentata. There are two species, one in central Africa and the other in S Africa. The aardvark, about 6 ft (180 cm) long, has a long snout, large erect ears, an almost naked or sparsely haired body, and a long tail. Its forefeet are adapted for making burrows in the ground and for clawing open the nests of ants and termites in order to capture the insects with its long sticky tongue. Its cylindrical teeth are continuously growing and without enamel or roots. The aardvark resembles the New World anteaters but is not closely related to them. It is also called ant bear or earth pig. Aardvarks are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Tubulidentata, family Orycteropodidae.

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books on: Aardvark  - 224 results

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Other Things and the Aardvark
Book by Eugene McCarthy; Doubleday, 1970
Subjects: Poetry
IV OTHER THINGS AND THE AARDVARK Communion 10 Commandments In a Chinese Mode The Snails of St. Paul de Vence Dogs of Santiago Three Bad Signs The Heron Ares Grass Silence Vietnam Message Are You Running With Me Jesus? The Tamarack The Maple Tree Recessional The Aardvark
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Mind, Brain, and Language: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Book by Marie T. Banich, Molly Mack; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003
...In object-relative clauses as The aardvark that the cop really scared ran into the...knows what grammatical or thematic role aardvark plays in the sentence. That is, several...one can know what, if anything, the aardvark did or what, if anything, was done...
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International Wildlife Encyclopedia - Vol. 1
Book by Marshall Cavendish; Marshall Cavendish, 2002
Subjects: Zoology--Dictionaries
AARDVARK Aardvark emerging from its burrow, South Africa. Aardvarks can burrow at high speed for considerable distances, up to 40 feet (12 m) in some cases. FIE AARDVARK IS AN African ll?an1111a1 with j a heavily built...
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Forgotten by Time: A Book of Living Fossils
Book by Robert Silverberg, Leonard Everett Fisher; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966
Subjects: Living Fossils
aardvark can dig faster...If necessary, aardvarks can run, or rather...to the modern aardvark. Now it was seen that aardvarks were living fossils...helped to fit the aardvark into the evolutionary...the guess that aardvarks were highly primitive...
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Thought and Reference
Book by Kent Bach; Clarendon Press, 1994
Subjects: Reference (Philosophy)
...present one. Someone supposes that Aaron Aardvark might be the winning name and says, If that...still be doing TV commercials, and 10 Aaron Aardvark might have been president. Who Aaron Aardvark is, if anyone, has no bearing on the statement...
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journal articles on: Aardvark  - 26 results

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The Internet Ecosystem: The Potential for Discrimination
Journal article by Dirk Grunwald; Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 63, 2011
Subjects: Cloud computing--Laws, regulations and rules, Net neutrality--Laws, regulations and rules, Price discrimination--Laws, regulations and rules, Telecommunication systems--Laws, regulations and rules, Telecommunications systems--Laws, regulations and rules
...social networking. (65) Ask.com and Aardvark focus on casting questions that are understandable...companies--indeed, Google acquired Aardvark in February 2010. It is also important...last visited Feb. 21, 2011); About Aardvark, AARDVARK, http://vark.com...
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The Underlining Game
Journal article by Alan Woodfield; New Zealand Economic Papers, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Authorship--Research, College faculty--Research, College teachers--Research, Research ethics--Management, Universities and colleges--Human resource management
...or design) or to Dr Aardvarks superior contribution...may be thought that Dr Aardvark is fortunate in lexicographic...employers must discount Dr Aardvarks primacy as possibly arising...authored by Zigo and Aardvark presumably sends a deliberate...
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The Moment of Nothing: A Philosophical Note on the Work of Kristin Linklater
Journal article by David Farrell Krell; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 44, 2011
Subjects: Authors--Works, Freeing Shakespeare's Voice (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Freeing the Natural Voice (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation, Linklater, Kristin--Works, Philosophers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Plato--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Voice--Analysis, Voice--Usage, Writers--Works
...we would take a word like aardvark, the first word of the dictionary...my heaven of ideas, from aardvark to zymurgy; I own them...land of ideas, nor like an aardvark, but nonetheless acutely...to sing: consonants kill aardvarks. The language of vowels...
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Early Literacy Instruction in the Climate of No Child Left Behind: Recent U.S. Education Reforms Are Having an Impact on Early Literacy Instruction
Journal article by Margaret Taylor Stewart; The Reading Teacher, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Early childhood education, Education and state, Education law, Education policy, Literacy--United States, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
...example, to build on a whole-class read-aloud of Awful Aardvark (Mwalimu Kennaway, 1989) in which I followed the reading...52, 462-476. Mwalimu, Kennaway, A. (1989). Awful aardvark. Boston: Little, Brown. Nagy, W., Anderson, R.C...
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"Stories or History?":1 Female Counter Narratives in André Brink's Imaginings of Sand
Journal article by Shelley Dixon; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2004
Subjects: Brink, Andre, History, Literary criticism, Narratives, Writers
...each of these suggestions; so why opt for any one? He may simply have flown away with the birds one day, or crawled into an aardvark hole never to emerge again: is this really any more fanciful than any other explanation?" (Brink, !mannings 104). Kristiens...
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Aardvark, Jcr on the Web, Eurofactor
Magazine article by Péter Jacsó; Online, Vol. 29, November 2005
Subjects: Library science, Online data bases, United States, Web portals, Web site design
Aardvark, Jcr on the Web, Eurofactor by Peter Jacso My picks include the Aardvark Web portal, focusing on library and information...for Europeans, using "biometric analysis." AARDVARK In June I sent an e-mail to a colleague and...
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What Does the Manatee Say to the Aardvark?--ancient Auntie
Magazine article by Ricki Lewis; The Scientist, Vol. 17, February 24, 2003
...compare chromosomes of aardvarks, humans, and elephants...between human, aardvark, and elephant...except the Y) has an aardvark counterpart, with...evolution. But the aardvarks has not undergone...and more so to aardvarks than to humans...like those of the aardvark than any other nonprimate...
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Ageless Aardvarks
Magazine article; NEA Today, Vol. 19, September 2000
Ageless Aardvarks Ageless Aardvarks Active seniors over 50 are the fastest...population in the U.S. today, and the Aardvark Express Web site is designed especially...travel and entertainment. Interested aardvarks can dig around at www.aardvarkexpress...
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Neighborly Advice Takes a Village
Magazine article by Thomas Pack; Information Today, Vol. 27, June 2010
Subjects: Aardvark, Electronic publishing, Questions, Search engines, Social networks, United States
...search engine? According to Aardvark (http://vark .com...tool for Web users." Using Aardvarks social search tool is fundamentally...article about JustAnswer.) On Aardvark, a question is routed to...of your friends. But using Aardvark is also different from using...
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Question-centric Queries: Can Socrates Save Search?
Magazine article by Stephen E. Arnold; Information Today, Vol. 27, October 2010
Subjects: Searches, United States, Web sites
...began with Googles acquisition of Aardvark for $50 million in February of this year. Aardvarks angle is that people join Aardvark, describe their expertise, and...marginalized the impact of that service. Aardvark, according to a news story in...
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Bring Back Our Aardvark
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 6, 2010
Subjects: County councils
Bring Back Our Aardvark. FAMILIES are campaigning for the return...1970s comic book character Cerebus the Aardvark had brightened up a bridge near Blyth...1,000. "I would like to see the aardvark painted back on. Im surprised after...
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Zoo Can Get Inside an Aardvark's Head
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 2, 2010
Subjects: Zoos
Zoo Can Get Inside an Aardvarks Head. Byline: Marni Pyke mpyke@dailyherald.com An aardvark getting a CT scan sounds like an April...still in a scanner," Adkesson said. Aardvarks, which are native to Africa, can...
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It's Aardvark Telling Them Apart!
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 13, 2011
Its Aardvark Telling Them Apart! SOMETIMES it takes a little time to make a relationship work. At least thats what zookeepers in Hampshire...
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It's Aardvark Telling Them Apart! Ernesto the Lovelorn Anteater Gets a German Wife Called Erica to Start Family - Only for Zoo to Discover 18 MONTHS Later That Erica Is an Eric
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 13, 2011
Subjects: Zoos
Its Aardvark Telling Them Apart! Ernesto the Lovelorn Anteater Gets a German Wife Called Erica to Start Family - Only for Zoo to Discover 18...
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It's Aardvark Telling Them Apart!
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 13, 2011
Its Aardvark Telling Them Apart! Byline: Jamie Welham SOMETIMES it takes a little time to make a relationship work. At least thats what zookeepers...
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encyclopedia articles on: Aardvark  - 3 results

 
 
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Aardvark
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AARDVARK ard vark Du.,=ground...the other in S Africa. The aardvark, about 6 ft (180 cm) long...without enamel or roots. The aardvark resembles the New World anteaters...called ant bear or earth pig. Aardvarks are classified in the phylum...
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Ant Bear
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ANT BEAR see aardvark . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Earth Pig
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EARTH PIG see aardvark . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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