anteater
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At a rehabilitation centre in Brazil, Fernando Faciole photographed an orphaned giant anteater pup trailing its caregiver.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025
Despite often being compared to pigs and South American anteater, aardvarks are not related to them.
From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2023
“Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna has the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole,” Oxford biologist James Kempton explained in the university’s release.
From Washington Times • Nov. 10, 2023
And she does this thing where she comes up with her camera really close to my face using the .5 filter and I look like a walrus or an anteater depending on the angle.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2023
The closest thing Nathan could think of was an anteater with a long tongue that could slither down narrow crevices.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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