The Aardvark

Kingdom: Animalia

• multicellular with specialized eukaryotic cells

• rely on other organisms for nourishment

• ingest food and digest food in an internal cavity

• have their own means of locomotion

Phylum: Chotrdata

• bilaterally symmetrical bodies

• at some point of their life cycle they have a pair of gill slits or pouches used to obtain oxygen in a liquid environment

• have a notochord at some time of their life  cycle

• members often have a head, tail, and digestive systemwith openings at both ends  of their body

Class: Mammilia

• concieve their young within the reproductive tract of the mother

• nourish young with milk produced  by the mammary glands

• are heterodonts

• are endothermic

• they have hair and sweet glands

• they have a four chambered heart

• they have a complex nervous system

• they have large brains

Order: Tubulidentates

Family: Orycteropodidae

• Aardvarks

Genius: Orycteropus

Species : Afer

References: http://www.animaldiversity.com

         Aardvark                 

Roses are red

Aardvarks are gray

Violets are blue

and they won't eat you