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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject:

Anteaters are the four mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua commonly known for eating ants and termites. Together with the sloths and armadillos, they make up the superorder Xenarthra.
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject:

Mammal of the family Myrmecophagidae, order Edentata, native to Mexico, Central America, and tropical South America. The anteater lives almost entirely on ants and termites. It has toothless jaws, an extensile tongue, and claws for breaking into the nests of its prey.
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject:

Ok, I got ya, it is that animal that eats ants...hahahahaha...stupid me...I thought that were two words...
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject:

Species include the giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla, about 1.8 m/6 ft long including the tail; the tamandua or collared anteater Tamandua tetradactyla, about 90 cm/3.5 ft long; and the silky anteater Cyclopes didactyla, about 35 cm/14 in long. The name is also incorrectly applied to the aardvark, the echidna, and the pangolin.
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject:

Are you Googling?
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

Dinertime!
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

Sloth
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{uZa}Amok · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

I made lasagne, while spamming here! Wink

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

Sloths are medium-sized mammals that live in Central America belonging to the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, part of the order Pilosa. Most scientists call these two families the Folivora suborder, while some call it Phyllophaga.
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

Sloths are omnivores, eating mainly vegetation. Sloths may also eat insects, small lizards and carrion. However, a sloth's main diet consists of mostly buds, tender shoots, and leaves.
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

Sloths have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrition and do not digest easily: sloths have very large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves.
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

As much as two-thirds of a well-fed sloth's body-weight consists of the contents of its stomach, and the digestive process can take as long as a month or more to complete. Even so, leaves provide little energy, and sloths deal with this by a range of economy measures: they have very low metabolic rates (less than half of that expected for a creature of their size), and maintain low body temperatures when active (30 to 34 degrees Celsius or 86 to 93 degrees Fahrenheit), and still lower temperatures when resting. Sloths mainly live in Cecropia trees.
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject:

Grizzly bear
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject:

The grizzly bear, sometimes called the silvertip bear, is a powerful brownish-yellow bear that lives in the uplands of western North America. It has traditionally been treated as a subspecies, Ursus arctos horribilis, of the brown bear living in North America.
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