How the Aardvark Lives

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which documentary location is most likely to feature a wild Aardvark?

slow rivers, floodplains, and muddy pools in South America grassland, scrub, gardens, and warm field edges farmland, grassland, marsh edges, and open woodland savannas and scrublands where termite colonies occur

Question 2 · multiple choice

Which natural buffet would be most useful to an Aardvark?

ants and termites gathered with a long sticky tongue mainly insects, with some leaves and flowers molluscs, crustaceans, sponges, algae, and hard-shelled prey fungus cultivated on carefully prepared leaf fragments

Question 3 · multiple choice

A researcher checks an Aardvark's movement log. Which pattern is most believable?

forages day or night with tides rests underground by day and feeds mostly at night active mainly at night active by day and often travels in cooler periods

Question 4 · multiple choice

A footprint-and-motion survey follows an Aardvark. Which result is most likely?

walks on jointed legs while carrying a borrowed shell walks on eight legs and probes with sensory combs beneath the body walks between colonies and digs rapidly with powerful foreclaws runs with two-toed feet and long elastic strides

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which adaptation would be most useful to an Aardvark in its normal environment?

long narrow body and still posture create twig camouflage a strong conical bill knots and weaves strips of grass translucent belly skin makes some internal organs visible nostrils can close against dust during digging

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which reproductive strategy is used by an Aardvark?

usually one young is born and sheltered inside a burrow eggs are laid on a simple scrape without a built nest females dig burrows in sand or ash for their eggs lays grape-like egg clusters on sheltered objects

Question 7 · multiple choice

What would a behavioural scientist most likely report about an Aardvark?

pairs may greet with colour changes and synchronised movements mostly solitary except for mothers with young adults are stationary but live within busy reef communities mostly solitary outside breeding gatherings

Question 8 · multiple choice

Why might conservationists monitor an Aardvark as part of a whole ecosystem?

controls insects and serves as prey for birds and snakes controls hard-shelled invertebrates on reefs abandoned burrows become shelters for many other animals prunes vegetation, moves soil, and redistributes nutrients

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which reaction would be natural for a threatened Aardvark?

releases high-voltage pulses that deter predators camouflages, spreads wings in a threat display, and strikes uses camouflage, hissing, and a startling defensive sway escapes underground or blocks a tunnel with its strong body

Question 10 · true false

True or False: An aardvark gorillas make separate day nests for rest and night nests for sleeping.

True False