Giant anteaters are usually solitary, except for mother-young pairs, or only coming together for brief periods for courtship and agonistic encounters. They may have large, defined home ranges up to …

y, behaviour and habitat requirements: The giant anteater belongs to the Xenarthra magna-order, which includes the orders Cingulata (armadillos) and Pilosa (anteaters and sloths), the latter characterized …

The southern tamandua or tamandua is a toothless mammal with one of the least complex skulls. They have disproportionately long snouts with even longer narrow rounded tongues. The tongue can …

the anteater! An adult giant anteater eats up to 35,000 ants and termites each day, so it vis chew its food. Instead, insects are smashed in the anteater’s mouth and in its m cular stomach. Sand, soil, …

We studied habitat selection and home ranges of reintroduced and wild giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in 2 South American wetlands (Iberá, Argentina, and Pantanal, Brazil). Nine reintroduced …

The giant anteater North American Regional Studbook documents all giant anteaters that reside or once resided in North America. This studbook only contains one species, Myrmecophaga tridactyla.

Figure 1: Range of M. tridactyla from Central America to Bolivia. Red area is known habitat of the Giant anteater and Blue area is possibly extinct (Superina et al., 2010).