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 for some tasty insects. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Once they learn to walk, the free ride is over—tamandua toddlers have to find ants on their own. From Wordnik.com. [ZooBorns] Reference
Asmouelle the tamandua, stood be - fore the narrow wooden oval that was the Quorum table and glared at his colleagues. From Wordnik.com. [The Moment Of The Magician]
It's a tamandua, a species of ant eater native to Costa Rica. From Wordnik.com. [Gadling] Reference
The tamandua is one of Costa Rica's three anteater species. From Wordnik.com. [Gadling] Reference
Several times we saw the tamandua bandeira, the giant ant-bear. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
I was very excited to have an opportunity to photograph a tamandua again. From Wordnik.com. [Gadling] Reference
The tamandua is seen climbing the loftiest monarchs of the forest in search of its insect prey. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Myrmecophaga tridactyla, about 6 feet long including the tail; the tamandua or collared Anteater. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News] Reference
For example, a tamandua, a kind of anteater, uses its long and curled claws to dig into insect mounds. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
It was a giant ant-eater, or tamandua bandeira, one of the most extraordinary creatures of the latter-day world. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
It is a very small creature -- not larger than the common grey squirrel -- with a prehensile tail like the tamandua. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
The tamandua throughout most of its habitat rarely leaves the forest, and it is a helpless animal in the open plain. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
The tamandua is much less than the tamanoir, being only three and a half feet in length, while the latter is over seven. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
While journeying through the interior of Brazil I not infrequently came across the big tamandua, the ant-bear or ant-eater. From Wordnik.com. [VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant] Reference
Out in the open marsh the tamandua could neither avoid observation, nor fight effectively, nor make good its escape by flight. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
The tamandua is usually of a dull straw-colour, although it varies in this respect, so that several species have been supposed to exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
As soon as we saw the giant tamandua we pushed off in a rowboat, and landed only a couple of hundred yards distant from our clumsy quarry. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
The missionaries call them osso carnicero, to distinguish them from the osso palmero or tamanoir (Myrmecophaga jubata), and from the osso hormigero, or anteater (tamandua). From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
Indeed, it seems hard to believe that in their ordinary environments such color schemes as the bright red of the marsh-deer, the black of the black jaguar, and the black with white stripes of the great tamandua, are not positive detriments to the wearers. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
In South America concealing coloration plays no more part in the lives of the adult deer, the tamandua, the tapir, the peccary, the jaguar, and the puma than it plays in Africa in the lives of such animals as the zebra, the sable antelope, the wildebeeste, the lion, and the hunting hyena. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
Habitat destruction and modification, and introduction of alien species to the ecoregion have caused the extinction of the collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu), the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), tamandua (tamandua tetradactyla), jaguar (Panthera onca), and jaguarundi (Herpailurus yaguarondi). From Wordnik.com. [Uruguayan savanna] Reference
The tamandua sat down. From Wordnik.com. [The Moment Of The Magician]
"Nope, " said the scruffy tamandua. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
SAN MIGUEL: ... a tamandua, am I say. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2003] Reference
(tamandua). From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Secretly wants a tamandua. From Wordnik.com. [Just cuz.] Reference
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