Frans Lanting: South America’s giant anteater has a distinctive appearance. Lacking teeth, it is totally dependent on its vermicelli-like tongue for its daily intake of more than 10,000 ants and termites. Its formidable claws are designed to tear into termite mounds, but can be raised in an ultimate defense against big cats like jaguars and cougars who prey upon them in the savannas of central Brazil. Near-sighted and shy, this full-grown male never noticed me crouched nearby as he sloshed through flooded grassland in Emas National Park.
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