🐽Aardvark
O porco-formigueiro, porco-da-terra, jimbo (em Angola), timba (na Guiné-Bissau), orictéropo ou oricteropo (nome científico: Orycteropus afer) é um mamífero africano, o único representante vivo da ordem Tubulidentata, da família Orycteropodidae e do género Orycteropus. Distribui-se por todas as planícies e savanas do sul de África. O estrangeirismo aardvark, pelo qual o porco-formigueiro é conhecido em vários países, sobretudo de língua inglesa, significa literalmente "porco-da-terra" em africâner (aarde, "terra", e vark, "porco"), mas este animal não está relacionado com a família dos suídeos (verdadeiros porcos).
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 ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
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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