The Giant Anteater
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is one of the four types of anteaters, found in
tropical forests and grassy plains from Panama to Argentina. The anteater
is a mammal that has no teeth and eats small animals, mostly ants (Encarta ‘
98). is grey with course, long hair--40 centimeters on
its tail--with a dark stripe running fr ....
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.... animals can move them in and
out of their mouths up to 150 times per minute (Schupska 1). The giant
anteaters lives on the ground. It walks with its front feet turned on the
sides to protect its claws, which the animal uses to rip open ant nest
before eating. Then it flits its long tongue and literally licks up the
ants. The anteater precedes to rip oben a termite or ant hill with its
clawed hand and work its tubular snout down into the heart of the colony,
trapping the insects on its tongue ....
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