Diet and Feeding
How Aardvarks Find Termite Mounds in the Dark
Smell over sight, a sticky 30cm tongue, and a route that can cover 200 mounds in a single night.
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Diet and Feeding: What the Field Data Actually Shows
An aardvark's entire body, tongue, claws, stomach, is built around one food source: ants and termites. This section breaks down how that diet works night to night, and what happens when insect supply runs short.
Related reading: Aardvark Facts and Aardvark Behaviour, or head back to the Aardvark.com homepage for the full site.
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