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Protamandua is an extinct genus of anteaters. Its closest living relatives are the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) and tamanduas (genus Tamandua). Fossils of Protamandua are restricted to the Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina. [1] It may have been a common ancestor of Myrmecophaga and Tamandua. [2]
The silky anteater occurs from Veracruz and Oaxaca in Mexico south to Colombia and Ecuador west of the Andes and to Brazil and Bolivia east of the Andes. An additional disjunct population also exists in northwestern Brazil. [17] Anteater habitats include dry tropical forests, rainforests, grasslands, and savannas. The silky anteater is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tamandua is a genus of anteaters in the Myrmecophagidae family with two species: the southern tamandua (T. tetradactyla) and the northern tamandua (T. mexicana). [2] They live in forests and grasslands, are semiarboreal, and possess partially prehensile tails. They mainly eat ants and termites, but they occasionally eat bees, beetles, and ...
The silky anteater is a slow-moving animal and feeds mainly on ants, eating between 700 and 5,000 a day. [10] Silky anteaters also feed on wasps and wasp pupae, attacking the wasp nests at night when the wasps are sluggish and unable to defend themselves. [11] Sometimes, it also feeds on other insects, such as termites and small coccinellid ...
“He will be greatly missed and will leave a giant anteater-sized hole in all of our hearts,” the zoo said. Eury the 22-year-old anteater that charmed TikTok with ‘old man antics’ dies at ...
Palaeomyrmidon is an extinct genus of anteater. Its closest living relative is the silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus). [1] Although the silky anteater is arboreal, Palaeomyrmidon lived on the ground. [1] Palaeomyrmidon is known from a fossil skull that was found in the Andalhualá Formation of Argentina. [2] [3]