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The titular character and his families from Arthur, an animated television series for children based on a book series and produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark. [44] In the first book of the series, Arthur's Nose (1976), he has a long, aardvark-like nose, [ 45 ] but in later books, his face becomes more rounded.
Country Name of animal Scientific name [a] Picture Ref. Albania: Golden eagle (national bird) Aquila chrysaetos [1] [2] Algeria: Fennec fox (national animal) Vulpes zerda [3] Antigua and Barbuda: European fallow deer (national animal) Dama dama [4] Frigate (national bird) Fregata magnificens [4] Hawksbill turtle (national sea creature ...
The first aardvark fossil discovered was originally named Orycteropus gaudryi (now Amphiorycteropus) and was found in Turolian deposits on the island of Samos. [1] Since then, representatives of the order Tubulidentata have been located from the Oligocene in what is now Europe, and it is believed that the order probably originated around 65–70 million years ago or in the Paleocene.
Orycteropus afer (Pallas, 1766) – aardvark – Palaeolithic to Recent of Africa † Orycteropus abundulafus Lehmann, Vignaud, Likius & Brunet, 2005 † Orycteropus crassidens MacInnes, 1955 [4] – Pleistocene of Kenya † Orycteropus djourabensis Lehmann, Vignaud, Mackaye & Brunet, 2004 [5] – Early Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of Chad and ...
Afrotheria (/ æ f r oʊ ˈ θ ɪər i ə / from Latin Afro-"of Africa" + theria "wild beast") is a superorder of placental mammals, the living members of which belong to groups that are either currently living in Africa or of African origin: golden moles, elephant shrews (also known as sengis), otter shrews, tenrecs, aardvarks, hyraxes, elephants, sea cows, and several extinct clades.
List of other Afrotheres by population – seacows, sengis, golden moles, otter shrews, tenrecs, hyraxes and the aardvark. List of rodents by population – cavies, squirrels, springhares, mice, beaver etc. List of eulipotyds by population – true moles, shrews, shrew-like moles, hedgehogs, moonrats, solenodons, and desmans
A number of conservation projects have been started around the world. The Tapir Specialist Group, a unit of the IUCN Species Survival Commission , strives to conserve biological diversity by stimulating, developing, and conducting practical programs to study, save, restore, and manage the four species of tapir and their remaining habitats in ...
The Ant and the Aardvark; The Ark and the Aardvark; C. Cerebus the Aardvark; E. Elmo Aardvark; N. Nobby the Aardvark; O. Otis the Aardvark; R. Arthur Read