Why, then, may I ask, do we hear so much talk of the "tamanoir," while not a word is said of the "aard-vark?". From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
In size, habits, and the form of many parts of its body, it bears a striking resemblance to its South American cousin the "tamanoir," which of late years has become so famous as almost to usurp the title of "ant-eater.". From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
Besides the tamanoir there are two, or perhaps three, other species of. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
He has got, moreover, as "tall" a tail as the tamanoir, very nearly as long a snout. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
The missionaries call them osso carnicero, to distinguish them from the osso palmero or tamanoir. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
It is not so good a walker as the three-toed kind, though more active on its feet than the tamanoir. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
When attacking an ant-castle, the tamanoir strikes a hole in the wall of clay with his powerful, crooked claws. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
But it shan't be so any longer; I stand up for the aard-vark; and, although the tamanoir has been specially called. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] 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
This thrust-and-parry game continued for some minutes, and might have lasted longer, had it not been for the young tamanoir. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
The tamanoir is not so defenceless a creature as might at first sight be imagined by considering his small toothless mouth and slow motions. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
Just at this moment the tamanoir, having turned round to address some conversation to her young companion, espied him, and sprang to her feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
He has got, moreover, as "tall" a tail as the tamanoir, very nearly as long a snout, a mouth equally small, and a tongue as extensive and extensile. From Wordnik.com. [The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family] Reference
It was close to one of the ant-hills where the old tamanoir placed her young upon the ground, and turning away from it, she approached the great cone. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
The female, like the tamanoir, produces only one young at a birth, and like the other species, carries it upon her back until it is able to provide for itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] 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
This animal is a long, low-bodied creature, with sharp-pointed snout, and an immense whip-like tongue, which he is capable of projecting to a great distance, in the same manner as the tamanoir. From Wordnik.com. [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference
Although Leon pitied the poor tamanoir, yet he dared not interfere, and would have permitted the puma to finish his work, but at that moment a sharp pain, which he suddenly felt in his ankle, caused him to start upon his seat, and utter an involuntary scream. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
Though it cannot be said to possess a sweet tooth -- as its mouth is as destitute of teeth as that of the tamanoir -- yet it does not confine its food to the termites alone, but seeks the nests of the stingless bees, which form their hives among the loftiest branches of the forest, and robs them of their honeyed treasures. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
"three-toed ant-eater," because it has only three claws upon each of its fore-feet, whereas the tamanoir is provided with four. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
We at once set out with our guns and game-bags, accompanied by the doctor's dog, Jumbo, who was almost as curious-looking as was his master -- a perfect nondescript; but the doctor boasted that he had not his equal, was afraid of neither quadruped nor biped, and would face a jaguar, a bear, or a tamanoir (the large ant-eater), while he would stand to his point till he died of starvation, provided the bird chose to stay and be pointed at. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela] Reference
Leon had not been frightened at the tamanoir. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon] Reference
(Myrmecophaga jubata), called also the tamanoir. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
"tamanoir," while not a word is said of the "aard-vark?". From Wordnik.com. [The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family] Reference
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