Beneath this dopey exterior lies a finely-tuned ant eating machine.
Look at this tongue. It's two feet long.
No other mammal has a tongue as long relative to its body size.
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They can do crazy things with this tongue.
It's sticky and has spikes, and anteaters can flick their tongues more than 150 times per minute to suck up bugs without getting bit or stung.
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With a tongue like that anteaters don't need to bother with teeth.
They just mash ants against the roof of their mouth.
Giant anteaters are really good at what they do. They eat more than 35,000 ants and termites every day.
That's the population of Manhattan every month and a half. But, you know, in ants instead of people.
Dave Pape
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