anteater

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A zoo is celebrating the birth of a giant anteater pup, which zoologists say is "considered the most threatened mammal in Central America".

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Despite often being compared to pigs and South American anteater, aardvarks are not related to them.

From Science Daily • Dec. 18, 2023

“Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna has the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole,” Oxford biologist James Kempton explained in the university’s release.

From Washington Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Poking around in the peat, he picked up a six-inch-tall bronze figurine with an egg-shaped head, looped arms, knobby breasts and a nose that would make an anteater envious.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022

“The producers would bring in a cat or an anteater or an otter and show it and let it cavort around,” Palmer says.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell