Oi Aardvark! (Oi Frog and Friends)

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Blench, Roger. "Aardvarks go shopping: Dagomba concepts of living things". {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "Aardvark". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.I: A-ak Bayes (15thed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.

Rey, Benjamin; Fuller, Andrea; Mitchell, Duncan; Meyer, Leith C. R.; Hetem, Robyn S. (31 July 2017). "Drought-induced starvation of aardvarks in the Kalahari: an indirect effect of climate change". Biology Letters. 13 (7): 20170301. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0301. PMC 5543026. PMID 28724691.

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My kids and I have been big fans of the Oi books every since the first one, Oi Frog, so I was very pleased to be given an opportunity to review the latest installment, Oi Aardvark. Due to the current state of the world, I read it over Zoom with my three children, who are aged 7-13, and we all really enjoyed it. I then read it with my two nieces, aged 3 and 7, and they loved it too. Clearly this is a book that easily appeals to a wide range of ages! The guessing what's coming, and the anticipation, really raise this book up in an already outstanding series. Anon (20 January 2003). "Great Uncle Aardvark?". BBC News. Archived from the original on 7 February 2008 . Retrieved 18 November 2013.

Based on fossils, Bryan Patterson has concluded that early relatives of the aardvark appeared in Africa around the end of the Paleocene. [13] [17] The ptolemaiidans, a mysterious clade of mammals with uncertain affinities, may actually be stem-aardvarks, either as a sister clade to Tubulidentata or as a grade leading to true tubulidentates. [18] [19]I loved this book because it was hilariously funny and I loved trying to guess what the animals sat on." Taylor, A.; Lehmann, T. (2015). " Orycteropus afer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T41504A21286437. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T41504A21286437.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021. Recent research suggests that aardvarks may be particularly vulnerable to alterations in temperature caused by climate change. Droughts negatively impact the availability of termites and ants, which comprise the bulk of an aardvark's diet. [35]Nocturnal species faced with resource scarcity may increase their diurnal activity to spare the energy costs of staying warm at night, but this comes at the cost of withstanding high temperatures during the day. A study on aardvarks in the Kalahari Desert saw that five out of six aardvarks being studied perished following a drought. [36] Aardvarks that survive droughts can take long periods of time to regain health and optimal thermoregulatory physiology, reducing the reproductive potential of the species.

Asher, R. J.; Bennett, N.; Lehmann, T. (2009). "The new framework for understanding placental mammal evolution". BioEssays. 31 (8): 853–864. doi: 10.1002/bies.200900053. PMID 19582725. S2CID 46339675. The aardvark is known to be a good swimmer and has been witnessed successfully swimming in strong currents. [31] It can dig a yard of tunnel in about five minutes, [30] but otherwise moves fairly slowly.Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (2010). "aardvark". Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary . Retrieved 18 November 2013. a b c d e Taylor, A.; Lehmann, T. (2015). " Orycteropus afer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T41504A21286437. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T41504A21286437.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021. Seiffert, Erik R (2007). "A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7 (1): 224. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-224. PMC 2248600. PMID 17999766. The mysterious Pleistocene Plesiorycteropus from Madagascar was originally thought to be a tubulidentate that was descended from ancestors that entered the island during the Eocene. However, a number of subtle anatomical differences coupled with recent molecular evidence now lead researchers to believe that Plesiorycteropus is a relative of golden moles and tenrecs that achieved an aardvark-like appearance and ecological niche through convergent evolution. [20] Subspecies

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aardvark, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/22. Accessed 24 May 2018. The ancient Egyptian god Set is usually depicted with the head of an unidentified animal, whose similarity to an aardvark has been noted in scholarship. [39] Genetically speaking, the aardvark is a living fossil, as its chromosomes are highly conserved, reflecting much of the early eutherian arrangement before the divergence of the major modern taxa. [28] Habitat and range