What is a giant anteater thinking?

Thirty-five thousand ants in a day, by tongue alone. Owns no teeth whatsoever.

The tongue is 60 cm long, anchored to the breastbone, and flicks up to 150 times a minute coated in sticky saliva. Around 35,000 ants and termites a day go in without a single tooth involved.

It also raids rather than destroys. An anteater spends only a minute or two at each nest before moving on, which leaves the colony alive to be visited again - by an animal that eats nothing else.

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