May 4, 2025
[ID: A photo of a giant anteater (Myrmecophaga Tridactyla) in a zoo habitat sleeping, with its body curled up and its head tucked underneath its bushy tail. /End ID]
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[ID: A photo of a giant anteater (Myrmecophaga Tridactyla) in a zoo habitat sleeping, with its body curled up and its head tucked underneath its bushy tail. /End ID]
By 350z33 on Wikipedia.
Why don't YOU get rid of him?
Don't tempt me.
Rick
people lately saying things like 'WHY would ANYone relate to rick ever????'
me, a rickkin: bruh
[ID: Three pictures of giant anteaters, labeled A, B, and C. A & B both show albino giant anteaters, and C shows a melanistic giant anteater. /end ID]
Alvinho, the first tracked albino giant anteater, is fairly well known, but I wanted to share this photo, taken from a paper by Cotts & Prestes, which also shows a giant anteater with melanism. I had never seen this picture before looking into it, nor have I seen any other pictures.
[ID: A simple drawing of a giant anteater sitting with a thought bubble above its head showing a singular ant. /end ID]
His dinnar.
Did you know giant anteaters eat up to 30,000 ants and termites per day.
Both ethically and genetically, there is nothing wrong with those woolly mice that were created in a lab. There are no complications, there's just an aesthetic change. (Technically, a little more than aesthetic, considering the fat pouches, but nevertheless, my point is that the animals are unhurt and seem to be able to thrive). However. Conceptually, I do have a problem with it, because its part of the company's "objective" to recreate woolly mammoths.
As much as I'd like to see, say, a thylacine or a woolly mammoth in the flesh, its a stupid idea. Why spend millions of dollars trying to recreate a species that is long dead, when we have species right now that are in danger of going extinct?
Even ignoring the tons of money that could be relocated for actually endangered species (which is quite hard to do), the ecosystem that woolly mammoths once populated is no longer able to support it. It has been thousands of years since they went extinct. These ecosystems no longer quite "need" megafauna to survive. Hypothetically, reintroducing them would help. But with climate change rapidly changing landscapes, how can you garauntee that this species will not be doomed to reextinction?
Ethically and morally, we cannot bring back woolly mammoths when these millions of dollars could be going into saving species we have right here, right now.