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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › MyrmecophagidaeMyrmecophagidae - Wikipedia

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   Myrmecophagids are medium to large animals, with distinctively elongated snouts and long, narrow tongues. They have powerful claws on their toes, enabling them to rip open termite mounds and ant nests to eat the insects inside. They have no teeth, but produce a large amount of sticky saliva to trap the insects, as well as backward-pointing ...

   • Class: Mammalia
   • Kingdom: Animalia

   • Family: Myrmecophagidae, Gray, 1825
   • Phylum: Chordata

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   Myrmecophagidae. anteaters. Four species in three gen­era make up this fam­ily, whose mem­bers are found in Cen­tral and South Amer­ica. Anteaters range from the very small Cy­clopes, which weighs around 250 gms, to the large Myrme­cophaga, which weighs over 30 kg. All anteaters have long, ta­pered snouts; that of Myrme­cophaga is ex ...

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   How many anteaters are in The Myrmecophagidae?

   • The Myrmecophagidae are a family of anteaters, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek words for 'ant' and 'eat' ( myrmeco- and phagos ). Two genera and three species are in the family, consisting of the giant anteater, and the tamanduas.

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   What does a Myrmecophaga look like?

   • The coat of Myrmecophaga varies in shades of brown with a wide black stripe up the legs toward the back, the texture of which is short and bristly similar to horsehair (Smithsonian Zoo, 2022). Mymecophaga has long claws on the forepaws with shorter bearlike paws on the back.

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   What is the difference between tamandua and Myrmecophaga?

   • Myrmecophaga walks with a peculiar, shuffling gait; Tamandua species walk on the sides of their hands; and Cyclopes are almost exclusively arboreal. The body fur varies from coarse and long ( Myrmecophaga) to short, soft, and silky ( Cyclopes ). All species have some sort of contrasting color pattern.

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   Is Myrmecophaga aggressive?

   • Myrmecophaga is generally a not aggressive species and will avoid threats if possible. When necessary to defend themselves the Giant Anteater will rear up to their hind legs using their large tail for balance this rearing also acts as a signal to other Anteaters and organisms to back away.

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4. www.sciencedirect.com › myrmecophagidaeMyrmecophagidae - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

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   Bars indicate 25–75% quantile (median represented by black line). Asterisks denote those mammalian taxa for which alpha diversity was significantly altered by captivity: *Canidae, *Atelidae, *Cercopithecidae, Hominidae, *Lemuridae, Bovidae, Giraffidae, Equidae, *Rhinocerotidae, Myrmecophagidae, Orycteropodidae.

5. academic.oup.com › mspecies › articleMyrmecophaga tridactyla (Pilosa: Myrmecophagidae)

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   Apr 12, 2018 · Mean external measurements (mm; with parenthetical SE, range, and n) based on adults from northern South America (Wetzel 1985) were: total length 2,000 (241, 1,740–2,817, 16); tail length 734 (76, 645–900, 16); pes length 165 (8, 150–180, 13), ear length 46.7 (4.7, 35–50, 9).

   • Author: Timothy Gaudin, Patrick Hicks, Yamil Edgardo Di Blanco

   • Publish Year: 2018

6. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesPopulation structure and genetic diversity of the giant ...

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   Feb 13, 2017 · Introduction. The giant anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus 1758, is a mammal of the Myrmecophagidae family, order Pilosa (Gardner, 2005).It is the largest of all four anteater species and it occupies a great variety of habitats, such as rainforests, dry forests, wetlands and open fields (Fonseca and Aguiar, 2004).

   • Author: Camila L Clozato, Flávia R Miranda, Paula Lara-Ruiz, Rosane G Collevatti, Fabrício R Santos
   • DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2016-0104

   • Publish Year: 2017
   • Publication: Genet Mol Biol. 2017 Jan-Mar; 40(1): 50-60.

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   Mymecophaga has long claws on the forepaws with shorter bear­like paws on the back. The paw has 5 claws which round in a curve shape around the pads of the paw. The fore­limb of this genus has in­creased mus­cu­la­ture which is al­most twice the size of the hind legs (Gaudin et al. 2018).

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   Phys­i­cal De­scrip­tion. Giant anteaters are quite dis­tinc­tive mor­pho­log­i­cally, they are the largest of the anteater species. The snout is long (up to 45 cm in length) and the skull is stream­lined with small eyes and ears. The tail is large and bushy and is nearly as long as the body. Head and body length mea­sures 1,000 to ...