Giant Anteater

Anteaters are edentate animals meaning 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. As the largest of all four anteater species, the giant anteater can reach eight feet long from the tip of its snout to the end of its tail. It is covered in grayish brown fur with white front legs, black stripes running from its chest to its back, and a bushy tail.

Anteaters are edentate animals meaning they have no teeth. But their long tongues are more than sufficient to lap up the 35,000 ants and termites