#tamanduas

[secularsasquatch]

[cielasaurus-art]

I love anteaters so much!!! close ups under cut :)

[antiqueanimals]

Let's Draw and Paint Book. Designed by Y. Ivanov.

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[michellemisfit]

Didn’t have enough time to finish the second little dude, so that’s a post Christmas ‘To Do’ but here’s tonight’s efforts in Tamandua drawing.

The session was led by the wonderful Anna Bryant from ARCAS Guatemala - who rescue, care for, rehabilitate, and release between 300 and 600 animals of 40 different species every year, many confiscated in the illegal pet trade or injured in the wild.

Check out their website and find out how you can help! What they do is so so important!

[moonbearpuppy]

Southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) appreciation post!!

Look at them, aren't they so cute??

They are my favourite animal so I wanted to share a little bit about them!

They are a species of anteaters that live in South America and the island of Trinidad!!

They love to climb trees, therefore they are arboreals. They can be pretty awkward when they are walking on the ground because of their long claws, that are made for climbing. They are also nocturnal, but they also can be active sometimes during the daytime!! Their vision is really poor but they have a great sense of smell and hearing!!

They are also typically solitary animals. Their body length go between 13 to 35 inches (without their tails), and their tails go between 12 to 26 inches. Adults can weigh from 3.3 to 18.5 lbs.

As any other anteaters, they love to eat ants, and termites, but occasionally they also eat honey, bees and fruit!!

They are really cute and fun little creatures, I love them so much!!! ‼️💕

[zookeeperrick]

Happy #WorldTamanduaDay! What? You don't know what a #Tamandua is? Well, let me bring you up to speed... They are also known as a lesser #anteater. (But we don't think anything less of them. That just means they're smaller than the giant anteaters.) There are countless #AnimalFacts about tamanduas, but lets focus on those feet. The front feet have a very big claw in the middle and they have very powerful muscles attached to those claws. They use these awesome adaptations to tear open rotting trees and termite mounds to get to the yummy eggs and larva of the termite and/or ant colony they are digging up. And how about that row of short hooked claws on the back feet? They are perfect for hooking into a tree as they climb. And get this! They can rotate their back feet 180 degrees. So when they climb out of a tree, head down, they can still use those short hooked claws to help them climb down. #wildlifeeducation #animalfact #toes #claws #littlestinker #cute #cuteoverload #cuteface #awesomeanimal #wildlifeaddicts #wildlifeseekers #sandiegozoo #safaripark #sdzoo #natgeo #tamanduas #uniqueanimals #nowyouknow #learnsomethingnew

[antiqueanimals]

In den Dierentuin, 1925.

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Animals of the High Andes. Written by Alida Malkus. Illustrated by Edward Osmond. 1966.