The animals introduced to you today look very special and interesting.
The great anteaters (myrmecophaga tridactyla) are mammals of the order Heteroarticularis, Phiphis, and anteaters.
Here I want to say that the big word in the big anteaters is not a modification of the three words of "anteaters", but its official name is called the big anteaters, even the cubs have to be called the big anteaters cubs, which is the same as the giant panda, and the small giant panda is not called the red panda, because the red panda is another animal.
Large anteaters live in the grasslands and rainforests of Central and South America , and are mainly active on land ( other species of anteaters have arboreals ) , most likely related to their size.
The faces of large anteaters are very long, which is one of their characteristics. Anteaters have no teeth, lack the function of chewing, and although their faces are long, their mouths are small, and their jaws can only perform small activities. This limits their diet to eat only small ants, termites, worms and small insects.
In order to compensate for the fact that the mouth is small and can only eat gadgets, the anteater evolved a long tongue. And their tongues are not attached to the hyoid bone, as most mammals do, but directly to the sternum. That is, the anteaters' tongue sticks out of the stomach, licks a tongue bug, and then retracts back into the stomach.
There is also a particularly interesting thing, I danced happily for a long time after knowing this, and greatly felt the magic of nature and the survival wisdom of animals.
The big anteaters mother will carry the cub on her back after it is born. This phenomenon is actually very common, interestingly, the cubs of the large anteaters will align the patterns on the mother's body, and then from a distance it looks like an extension of the large anteaters' mother's hair markings, thus achieving a hidden effect.
There are many ways to mimic, but most of them imitate the colors of the environment or the colors of other animals, such as chameleon mimetic foliage, cheetah cub mimic honey badger. But like the big anteater cubs, using the mother's markings to make themselves mimic the environment is rare, is not super fun!
This is the survival wisdom of wild animals, wonderful, wonderful!