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- Giant anteater
Species of mammal
Anteaters are edentate animals—they have no teeth. But their long tongues are more than sufficient to lap up the 35,000 ants and termites they swallow whole each day. The giant anteater can reach 7 feet long from the tip of its snout to the end of its tail. nationalgeographic.com
- Mammal
- Insectivore
- 14 years
- Vulnerable
- Head and body: 6 to 49 in (15.2 to 124 cm); tail: 7 to 35 in (17.8 to 89 cm)
- 40 to 140 lbs (18.1 to 64 kg)
- The giant anteater has the longest tongue of any animal. It can extend 2 feet beyond its mouth.
