Archive for the 'Anteater' Category
Australia and New Guinea are the home of some of the world’s strangest animals, and one of the queerest of them all is the echidna, or spiny anteater. At first glance it looks something like a porcupine, for it has short, thick, yellowish spines all over its head and the upper part of its body. But it [...]
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Quite unlike the giant anteater and the tamandua in appearance is their relative, the silky anteater of tropical America. It is a tiny creature – its head and body are only about six inches long, its tail seven or eigtht inches – yet it is a savage fighter.
If it happens to be asleep in the [...]
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A very odd looking animal is the giant anteater that lives in the swampy forests of Central America and tropical South America. Its head is extremely long, cylindrical and tapering; it tail is huge and bushy, and its forefeet are armed with powerful, in-curving claws.
It has no teeth, but teeth are not important to an [...]
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