🐽Aardvark
Het aardvarken (Orycteropus afer) is een zoogdier dat voorkomt in vrijwel geheel Afrika ten zuiden van de Sahara. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd door Peter Simon Pallas in 1766. Ondanks de naam en vage gelijkenis is het aardvarken geen familie van het varken, maar nauwer verwant aan tenreks en goudmollen, springspitsmuizen, olifanten en klipdassen. Het is de enige overlevende vertegenwoordiger van de orde der buistandigen (Tubulidentata). Het aardvarken is makkelijk te herkennen aan zijn grote oren, korte poten en varkenssnuit. Zijn voedsel bestaat voornamelijk uit termieten en mieren. Het aardvarken heeft een weinig behaarde huid.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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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