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The name anteater refers to the species' diet, which consists mainly of ants and termites. Anteater has also been used as a common name for a number of animals that are not in Vermilingua, including the echidnas, numbat, pangolins, and aardvark.
The aardvark is sometimes colloquially called the "African ant bear", [6] "anteater" (not to be confused with the South American anteaters), or the "Cape anteater" [6] after the Cape of Good Hope. The name "aardvark" is Afrikaans ( pronounced [ˈɑːrtfark] ) and comes from earlier Afrikaans erdvark . [ 6 ]
Red: anteater, yellow: armadillo, blue: sloth, orange: both anteater and armadillo, green: both armadillo and sloth, purple: anteater, armadillo and sloth Xenarthra ( / z ɛ ˈ n ɑːr θ r ə / ; from Ancient Greek ξένος , xénos, "foreign, alien" + ἄρθρον , árthron, "joint") is a major clade of placental mammals native to the ...
Anteater. Song: “Johnny B. Goode,” by Chuck Berry. Panel guesses: Paul Stanley, Jackson Browne, Steven Van Zandt Mixtape clue: “Deep Thoughts.” “I had the greatest conversation when I ...
The answer is either five continents or only in the Western Hemisphere. However you define them, anteaters are fascinating creatures.
Anteater can also refer to any of several unrelated species which have independently and convergently adapted to fill the same niche of eating ants or termites: Pangolin (scaly anteater), boreoeutherian placental mammals found in tropical regions of Africa and Asia; Aardvark (Cape anteater), a medium-sized afrotherian placental mammal native to ...
The giant anteater is the most terrestrial of the living anteater species; specialization for life on the ground appears to be a new trait in anteater evolution. The transition to life on the ground could have been aided by the expansion of open habitats such as savanna in South America and the abundance of native colonial insects , such as ...
Mother sea otter with sleeping pup, Morro Bay, California. In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups.