Anteater

1. Anteaters have no teeth.
2. When an anteater eats ants and termites he doesn't destroy the ant hill or mounds. He just wants his food.
3. With their long tongue, they can lap up 35,000 ants or termites while swallowing them whole.
4. The anteater uses its claws to open up the whole to the ant hill and uses its long snout to to put it down the whole to eat the ants, and the anteater does this quickly.
5. An Anteater can flick their tongue up to 160 times per minute!!
6. While an anteater is trying to eat it's dinner, the ants will actually sting the anteaters tongue. So the Anteater has only so much time to eat as many ants as he can.
7. Anteaters have horrible eye sights, so they use there keen sense of smell more than their eyes.
8. Anteaters are found in Central America and South America.
9. Anteaters prefer more tropical places and also grasslands.
   
   
10. There is four different species of anteaters. They also are in all different sizes.
11. A Silky Anteater can be the size of a squirrel.
12. Some anteaters like the silky anteater go after there prey in the trees.
13. An Anteater is a mammal.
14. They can live up to 14 years.
15. Anteaters can weigh up to 40 to 140 pounds.
16. Anteaters are a threatened species.
17. The tongue of an anteater can be up to two feet long.
18. A female Anteater has one offspring per year.
19. Anteaters are not aggressive at all, but they can be fierce.
20. 
    When an anteater feels threatened they will get up on their back legs using their tail for balance and use their claws to protect themselves.