Anteater
Myrmecophaga tridactyla
What they look like
What they are doing in this picture
Where they are around
What is going on with the Anteaters
Physical Adaptions
Behavioral Adaptions
General description
Type: Mammal
Diet: Carnivore
Average life span in the wild: 14 years
Size: Head and body, 6 to 49 in (15 to 124 cm); tail, 7 to 35 in (18 to 89 cm)
Weight: 40 to 140 lbs (18 to 64 kg)
Color: mostly brown and black
How They Eat and there diet
Where they can be found
Verebrata
muscular, perforated pharynx; this structure is the site of gills in fishes but is much reduced in adult land-dwelling forms (although it is extremely important in embryonic development of all vertebrates)
movements provided by muscles attached to endoskeleton
digestive system with large digestive glands, liver, and pancreas
ventral heart with 2-4 chambers
blood with red blood corpuscles containing hemoglobin, and in addition, white corpuscles
Classification
Domain Eurarya
Animalia
Species
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Family
Anteaters range from the very small Cyclopes, which weighs around 250 gms, to the large Myrmecophaga, which weighs over 30 kg. All anteaters have long, tapered snouts; that of Myrmecophaga is extraordinarily elongated. The tongue is also long. Anteaters secrete a sticky substance from their salivary glands that coats the tongue when they feed. The ears are small and rounded, and the eyes are small.