30 interesting facts about giant anteater that you didn't know about

30 interesting facts about giant anteater that you didn't know about

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My favorite animal of all time is a strange one, and if you haven't already, it is the Giant Ant eater.

With its impressive long tongue and odd looking pointed nose, the Giant Ant eater is the most interesting mammal you probably knew nothing about!

Here are 30 interesting facts about the Giant Anteater:

Let's start with the obvious, for what is famous, its tongue.

Stick with the tongue, and stick to the word.

They can pick their tongue in and out of their mouth up to 150 times per minute.

Despite the name, the Giant Anteater's main food is actually termites.

Ant eaters have been known to add to their diet soft fruits like mangoes and papaya, if they come across any fruit.

They will eat about 35,000 ants and termites per day, that's about 1 million per month!

Giant anteater without teeth.

They only feed in the nest or mound for 2 minutes at a time.

The giant anteater walks on its knuckles, like a gorilla.

With its razor-sharp claws and powerful arms, the Giant Ant eater does the gentle job of digging through termite mounds and thick logs for their delicacies.

With large claws and strong arms, it is often assumed that the Giant Anteater is related to the bear.

They use their strength for formidable defense.

With such fighting ability, the Giant Ant eater is considered by some governments to be a dangerous animal that should not be accessed in the wild.

In 2007, a zoo keeper in Argentina was attacked by a giant Anteater and opened its belly.

A giant anteater carrying young on its back.

The average length of the Giant Anteater is about 2 and a half meters, although about half of these are their dense long tail.

Their tails are used as a cover to keep warm at night.

The giant anteater has the lowest body temperature of all mammals.

Giant anteater can be found naturally in 14 countries.

They have been found in Uruguay, Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador;

When the first Giant Anteater was bought back to Europe in the 1700s, scientists at the time believed that all Giant Anteater was female and that their long snout was used.

The giant ant eater has poor eyesight.

The giant anteater has been around for 25 million years.

Although they had the same diet and similar life, the Giant Anteater, Aardvarks and Echidna both evolved independently of each other.

The giant anteater raised in zoos changed their diet.

The giant ant eater regularly bathes.

Giant anteater that can swim.

They don't follow the voice, instead they gallop, like a horse.

The Shipibo (part of the Inca Empire in Peru) believed that the Giant Anteater possessed mystical powers.

The scientific name of the Giant Anteater is Myrmecophaga Tridactyla.

Additional Fact: In 1969 an eccentric and total surrealist artist, Salvador Dalí, was photographed while walking his pet in Paris.

Nothing to say with that really, except for the mic ... crashed.