### animal | vertebrate | mammal | aardvark:

Female aardvark
* give birth to one baby at the start of the rainy season.
* have a gestation of seven months and give birth to one young at a time.
* tend to live in one area for their lifetime, while males wander around.

Ancient mammal
* include animals
  - small animals
* roam earth.

### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Anteater
* Most anteaters are known as anteaters.
* Most anteaters eat ants
  - diets
  - insects
  - termites
  - feed on ants
* Most anteaters have bushy tails
  - long tongues
  - mouths
  - natural predators
  - poor sight
  - preference
  - prehensile tails
  - ribs
  - teeth
  - inhabit habitats
* Most anteaters live for years
  - on termites
  - possess relatives
  - resemble anteaters
* Most anteaters use burrows
  - digestion
  - grass
* Most anteaters use long noses
  - snouts
  - prey digestion
  - tall grass
  - weigh pounds
* Some anteaters avoid contact
  - carry offspring
  - develop hearts
* Some anteaters have diets
  - families
  - fingers
  - fur
  - pouches
  - thick fur
  - ingest fine gravel
* Some anteaters kill hunters
  - live in grassland
  - prefer termites
  - stay with mothers
* Some anteaters use claws
  - front claws
  - sharp claws.
  * eat ants and termites. They have long, sharp claws and a long, sticky tongue. The tongue can be up to 60 cm long, as long as a person's arm. The anteater opens an ant nest with its claws. Then it licks up the ants with its tongue
* There are many kinds of animals living in Texas.
* also eat ants, hence their name
  - have an obvious white stripe on their front shoulder
  - roam the ground looking for food
* are also good swimmers, using the freestyle stroke and with their long snout as a snorkel
  - expert in licking ants and termites
  - found in Central and South America, where they prefer tropical forests and grasslands
* are generally solitary animals, except during the mating season
  - good swimmers and tree climbers
  - mammals so they breath through there nostrils and into their lungs
  - nature's suction pumps
  - regarded as being similar to armadillos
* are solitary in nature
  - the only mammals to have no teeth
  - warmbloodedNo
* avoid anteater-eating ants, most likely because the whole goddamn food chain.
* can also use their tails to hold onto branches when moving through trees.
* climb trees.
* drink by licking wet plants.
  - hundreds of ants every day
* feed almost exclusively on termites, ants and soft-bodied grubs
  - mainly on ants and termites
* forage for food.
* generally build their habitats near streams or lakes.
  - faces
  - generally poor hearing and eyesight, but a very good sense of smell
  - interaction
* have long tongues
  - tube-like mouths with no teeth
  - terrible eyesight but a keen sense of smell
  - very long, strong claws
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
  - in South America and Central America
* make highly effective organic vacuum cleaners.
* never destroy a nest, preferring to return and feed again in the future.
* prefer termites to ants.
* swallow meals.
* track prey by their scent.
* usually have no teeth.
+ Insectivore: Animals
  * To eat insects for food is not very easy because it takes many insects to make enough food for an insect-eating animal. Anteaters eat hundreds of ants every day.