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n. - Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs.

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  • Giant anteaters usually eat up to 35,000 insects a day!!! some special types of anteaters such as tamandua and the silky anteaters travel from branch to branch to search...
  • Once they learn to walk, the free ride is over—tamandua toddlers have to find ants on their own.
  • Asmouelle the tamandua, stood be - fore the narrow wooden oval that was the Quorum table and glared at his colleagues.
  • It's a tamandua, a species of ant eater native to Costa Rica.
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