anteater

Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures he has found: leopards, hornbills, and once an anteater.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Despite often being compared to pigs and South American anteater, aardvarks are not related to them.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2023

She was called an "amiable anteater" with an "unbelievable nose", who resembled "a myopic gazelle".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2023

Deep within the nest and with thicker walls, this chamber protects the queen and the king if, say, an anteater takes a swipe.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

The dictionary had a picture of it, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal, which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Giant anteaters have black and white diagonal stripes, dense shaggy hair and super-sized snouts.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

Meanwhile, though giant anteaters have successfully been released back into the wild, giant armadillos are extremely threatened.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024

Bushy-tailed giant anteaters galloped in the dewy grass.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

In mammals, egg laying is limited to echidnas, sometimes known as spiny anteaters, and the platypus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2023

The first set of puzzles about anteaters and elephants had to be easier than the set of puzzles about beavers and worms, which in turn had to be easier than the final set about fish.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell