TUBULIDENTATA

Mozambique 1981Gabon 1996
Aardvark
Orycteropus afer
(Orycteropodidae)
Aardvark
Orycteropus afer
(Orycteropodidae)


Aardvark
Ocycteropus afer
(Orycteropodidae)
(TUBULIDENTATA)


A tooth of Tubulidentata is poor, and Tubulidentata eats mainly a termite. There are not an incisor and a cuspid, and there is not tooth enamel, and, as for the molar tooth, the tooth continues lengthening without a dental root with the thing that it was it from the set of six prisms of the form of pipe which opened of the hole throughout the life centrally. Four fingers, a hind leg have five fingers on forefoot, and there is the nail of the form of hoof in semi walk which can half hit a foot bottom in the ground. It is distributed over Africa only with one course's best genus kind.
The aardvark is head long torso 100-150cm, Japanese blue magpie 45-63cm, and it seems to be an anteater, and the head is slim, but it is discal, and the straight before one edge resembles a pig. From the property that it is nocturnal, and is extremely coward, a seal is not yet in the habits well. It dig a hole in a grassy plain and the forest which opened out and live alone. Having a firm leg nail, It is good at excavation. It break an anthill and it insert a certain tongue having a long and lick the ant and ask it nearly 30cm that got wet with viscous liquid and eat. Tubulidentata eats a termite and the other insects, too.

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