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- Baby Anteaters Ride Around on Their Mother’s Backs. Because anteaters have such long claws, they’re unable to grab or hold their young. Because of this, many baby anteaters spend their days riding around on their mother’s backs.
- Baby Anteaters Can’t Eat Ants for Awhile. Baby anteaters don’t come out of the womb ready to feast on an all-you-can-eat ant buffet. For about six months, pups get all their nutrients from their mother’s milk, before transitioning to a more ant and termite-based diet.
- Most Baby Anteaters Are Only Children. Unlike other animals, many anteaters will never know what it’s like to play with their siblings. However, being an only child comes with a lot of benefits for baby anteaters.
- Baby Anteaters Lack Teeth. Yes, you read that right: baby anteaters don’t have any teeth. However, adult anteaters never grow them either! Anteaters are edentates, a term that means “without teeth.”
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Threats to these animals' populations are many. Thus, in some areas of their range, Giant anteaters are hunted for food, persecuted as pests as well as captured as pets or for illegal trade. In some regions, especially in Central America, the Giant anteater is threatened with loss of habitat. On the other hand, living in grasslands, this animal is ...
The IUCN Red List and other sources don’t provide the number of the Giant anteater total population size. Currently, this species is classified as Vulnerable (VU) on the IUCN Red List, and its numbers today are decreasing.
These animals are very important for the ecosystem of their habitat. Being specialist predators of certain insect species, they hugely influence local insect communities.
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