🐽Aardvark
L'Oryctérope (Orycteropus afer), parfois appelé cochon de terre par traduction de son nom en afrikaans erdvark (anciennement aardvark) est un mammifère essentiellement termitivore d'Afrique, qui joue un rôle écologique important en contrôlant l'extension des populations de termites. Il ne s'agit toutefois pas d'un fourmilier, ces derniers appartenant au super-ordre des xénarthres. Orycteropus afer est la seule espèce survivante du genre Orycteropus et unique membre de l'ordre des tubulidentés dont de nombreuses autres espèces ayant existé ont été découvertes à l'état fossile. Les principaux prédateurs de ce petit animal sont le lion, le léopard, la hyène et le python.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.
- Body mass
- 56 kg
- Body length
- 1.42 m
- Shoulder height
- 0.6 m
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 30 years
Everything we know about the Aardvark
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass56 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 60 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.42 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Shoulder height0.6 mat the shoulderDetails ↓Hide ↑
Guide: "Aardvark Orycteropus afer Shoulder height: 60 cm" (verified via Open Library full-text search of the book). Handbooks vary: The Macdonald Encyclopaedia of Mammals gives "shoulder height about 75 cm (30 in)". ADW, Mammalian Species No. 300 and the SA Red List assessment give length and mass only.
Source: Skinner, J.D., Struik Pocket Guide: Mammals of Southern Africa, https://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=%22Orycteropus%22+%22shoulder+height%22 · see citation
Brain mass105 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan30 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 30 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length9.92 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.1 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation222 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 225 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l56 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Aardvark yet: top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderTubulidentata
- ›familyOrycteropodidae
- ›genusOrycteropus
- ›speciesOrycteropus afer
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderTubulidentata
- familyOrycteropodidae
- genusOrycteropus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- orderTubulidentata
- familyOrycteropodidae
- genusOrycteropus
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