Safari! Animal #7 - Hmm, I wonder what I'll have for dinner tonight: the aardvark.

"My, what big ears you have!  My, what a big nose you have!  My, what big powerful claws you have!  My, what a long sticky tongue you have!"

"All the better to hear your movements, dismantle your abode, sniff you out, and slurp you up with, my sweet!"

The poem 'Muhanga' could keep your class in vocabulary words for weeks. It even contains several words that do not officially exist.  Yet, despite all the dictionary thumbing you might do, the answer can be found at the top of page one! Muhanga in Swahili means aardvark - the first word in the dictionary after "a."

 

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