28/12/2023
Aardvark Antics ☺️🐜
•Aardvarks walk on their tippy toes
•Their feet are shaped like spades
•Aardvarks have very long, sticky tongues to catch ants & termites
•Aardvarks eat 50-60,000 ants & termites in one night!
•To escape predators, aardvarks run in a zig-zag pattern ⚡️
•Aardvark means ‘earth pig’ although they are not a close relative of the pig family at all
•Aardvarks are 105-130cms long (that’s 750 times as wide as a strand of spaghetti ~ of course you knew that 😉)
•Oh, and Aardvark is the very first word in the English Dictionary!
Aardvarks are way cooler than we thought! who knew all this cool stuff???
The illustration is by lovely artist Annie White & you’ll be seeing more of her work in our next book ‘Splat-Flat the Bat’, due for release later this year.
From the book ‘Notbat the Numbat’ published by Clark & Mackay 2023
Aardvark facts via kidsconnect.com & themeasureofthings.com