The Giant Anteater

Ants are toothless animals and have no teeth. However, their long tongues are large enough to swallow the 35,000 ants and termites they swallow daily. The giant ant, the largest of the four species of anteater, can measure up to 8 feet in length from the tip of the beak to the tip of the tail. It is covered in grey-brown fur, white forelegs, a black stripe running from chest to back and a bushy tail. Giant ants are found in South and Central America, but their numbers have declined significantly in Central and South America. 

To thrive, you must be able to move across large areas of the forest. They are mostly found in tropical and dry forests, savannas and open grasslands, where they eat many ants.
Giant ants use their long beaks, sticky saliva and efficient tongues to bore into ants with their sharp claws. However, they must eat quickly, moving their tongue up to 150 times per minute. Because ants face heavy stings, the anteater can only spend a minute on each hill. Giant ants never destroy nests, preferring to return later to feed. These animals find food not by sight, but by smell, which is 40 times stronger than humans.


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