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This African Aardvark Skull is 8 7/16 Inches long and is in beautiful condition.

The Aardvark, or Ant Bear has very distinctive teeth, which instead of having a pulp cavity, have a number of thin tubes of dentine, each containing pulp and held together by cementum. They also have no enamel coating and are worn away and regrow continuously.

The Aarvarks main diet consist of ants,termites and other small insects which it is well adapted to find with it's long snout and long sticky tongue.

Conservation status of the Aardvark: Least Concern: Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Superorder: Afrotheria Order: Tubulidentata Huxley, 1872 Family: Orycteropodidae Gray, 1821 Genus: Orycteropus G. Cuvier, 1798 Species: O. afer Binomial name Orycteropus Afer.

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