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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 ....

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.... 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's sticky coating (Encarta ‘98). The anteater also uses the claws as a defense mechinism. The natural predators of the giant anteater are the jaguar and the puma. Anteaters defend themselves against the lar ....