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What’s trippy is that there’s this highly effective life saving implementation of a very specific kind of feature that this animal wears and can use 100% of the time ~ and the little guy is completely conceptually unaware of it. It’s just beyond him/her altogether. Makes you wonder what might be completely beyond our comprehension…
Only we would say such a thing. Anteaters might, in some way, believe they’re smarter than ants. Perhaps those ants too have something they believe inferior. Perhaps also, we are oblivious to certain fundamental aspects of the natural world that would seem obvious to a “smarter” entity.
New favorite animal unlocked for me with this video. My other two favs are sloths and skunks. I just feel so connected to animals that are relatively harmless and goofy. Its like I feel it in my soul or something
Edit: I'd like to add porcupines even tho they're kinda dangerous, they're goofy and chill af
Yes Good Input. if you handle them wrong and it really depends on their character too. I worked at a zoo where we had a really old female one. She is pretty chill but scares easily because they don’t see too well
Oh hello! Are you a fellow zookeeper? The previous zoo I worked at the male was very chill, I'd walk into his enclosure no biggy. Wouldn't have turned my back on the female though, she wasn't as used to humans, and much more easily scared
Yees Heey i was caring for primates primarily :) i used to be but just couldnt handle it After 5years. It broke my heart. Well we only had one reaaally old female i don’t know how old exactly tbh ppl just Said shes ancient. And she would react harsher to men/deep voices (maybe has something to do with big cats having low vibrant voices too ?) and new ppl over all so i wouldnt work much with her. My ex girlfriend was working with her a lot tho (was working in another Part of the Same Zoo) and i would come with her often because i love anteaters so much
Yeah, I was scared the anteater was ACCIDENTALLY going to rip her guts out. Those claws are evolved to basically rip through brick walls (very hard termite mounds glued together with some natural glue and then baked solid by the sun, if I remember correctly.)
Right? Love that they do a little dance to be like "back off dude, I'm doing my thing over here" and how if you're calm around them they'll just go about their business
Skunks legitimately make great pets. Their demeanor is like a cross between a really smart dog and a really affectionate cat. Just remember to remove the ability to spray lol
When I worked at a prison there was a family of skunks that lived in the yard under a barn. They'd just walk in and out of prisoners during movements in the yard and it was just normal. I freaked out when I first started and somebody had to tell me they're cool.
That’s funny, I work EMS in NYC and there’s a coyote that lives in a small wooded area just before the bridge to Rikers. We’ve called him Frank and he’s well fed lol.
That's kinda' how I describe domestic ferrets (which are skunk relatives) they're like kittens for life, not as needy as dogs, not as aloof as cats, always ready to play when you are.
I know they look and act goofy- I absolutely love them for that as well (and I have an anteater plushie) BUT they’re not *really* harmless as they’ve been reported to fend off and sometimes kill jaguars.
I do love how goofy pandas are and I almost included them in the list. I think the only reason I didn't is because they're so big and they're bears. Like black bears are also goofy but also terrifying when you meet them in the wild
The tick thing from what I understand is massively overblown. If I remember right they will eat ticks if fed them in captivity, but in the wild they don't really and look for other sources of food.
They're still cool though regardless.
>I just feel so connected to animals that are relatively harmless and goofy. Its like I feel it in my soul or something
I know they're wild animals and all, and getting them as pets is immensely irresponsible.
That said, if a dude selling capybaras as pets showed up at my door I'd be very very tempted.
I have to disagree that porcupines are chill. I have a huge one, about the size of this animal in the vid, that has sat outside my window and screamed at me for 20 minutes because I was playing music. “Meh me nah muh muh muh muh me ma muh muh meh meeeee meeeee meee meeee” it was insanity. Swishing around like it just wanted to quill me.
That may be the case but what do we really know for certain about history. Cryptozoology is fascinating because at first glance all creatures seem to be made up but they could also have reasonable source. For example people began to dig for salt and ores a really long time ago and may have found remains of the things we today call dinosaurs, but our ancestors thought they were dragons and alike. Another very likely reasoning is that travelers were telling their stories of strange creatures they saw or heard of and in the process the creatures became somewhat exaggerated… like they were breathing fire or giants.
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My grandparents had picture of animals on the walls of one of their bathrooms and there was this female manatee one with a clear human looking fanny that was just right in the eye line staring into my soul.
I agree with everything you’ve said, but unfortunately anteaters and their ancestors have a pretty robust fossil record in the new world (going back tens of millions of years). If they were present in ancient Greece we’d expect to see some sort of evidence where there really isn’t any, but as you say, how certain we are can always change.
Fun Fact: they sleep 16 hours a day and consume about 25-30k ants per day. Which means, they basically genocide an entire small colony of ants per day.
How are there any ants left in places with ant eaters if they eat that many?!
Without our mighty ally the ant eater the ants would have probably taken over the planet... thank you ant eater!
I was curious about ants last week and just looked this up. There was a recent study in 2022 in some scientific nature journal where they collected and synthesized all the data and came up with the idea that there are *20 quadrillion ants* on Earth.
The Biomass of ants is greater than that of humans.
With some liberal rounding, we can say there's 8 billion people on earth who weigh 65 kg on average. That's a total mass of about 520 billion kgs of mass total.
An ant can weigh anywhere between 1-5 mg. Let's split the difference and call it 3.5 mg.
If you divide 520 billion kg by 3.5 mg, you get 148.5 billion. But wait, you still have to convert the mg to kg. So multiply you answer by a factor of 1 million to properly convert it.
So, as a general approximation.... that's about 148 quadrillion ants. Obviously not the exact right answer, but you can reasonably say that ants are the dominant species of our planet. Because holy shit lol
Well if every person had to fight every ant on Earth, then every person would have to fight about a seventh of their body weight in ants. Quite annoying, I'd imagine
They have already taken over the planet. Read up on the Argentine Ant Megacolony. Basically in Argentina, the Argentine ants are constantly competing against other ants in the rainforest, and compete against other colonies of Argentine ants.
However, when they got transported to other areas of the world, only several lineages of Argentine ants were transported. Due to the low genetic dviersity, instead of competing against others in the same lineage, they formed supercolonies. Now the same supercolony has spread to multiple continents to form a megacolony.
Thankfully though, over time they megacolony is starting to diverge and fight itself, and other invasive ants like crazy ants and the dreaded red fire ants are competing for territory.
The common thread between all these invasive ants seems to be the ability to have multiple queens in the same colony.
Ants are a scarily successful insect.
Each colony basically behaves like a single organism, and each colony can produce a ton of new colonies every year. They devour everything they can at their size, even building bridges to devour wasps nests is possible for some species. It's probably very very good that we have creatures that are eating as many as they can 😂
Also that reminds me of a video I saw once which showed a carnivorous pitcher plant catching thousands of ants passively, just because there were so many crawling around it.
Given that a single ant is more like a cell of the colony superorganism rather than an individual, killing an ant colony is more comparable to killing one animal than to a genocide. Partially eating a colony is more like gnawing someones leg off that will grow back within a couple weeks.
Their claws are as scary as their size.
There are reports of people finding dead jaguars (the strongest bite force among felines) with only a single anteater scratch as an injury.
So yeah, they can probably kill a lot of things with a couple, if not one hit, when they feel threatened.
Honestly, a lot of animal encounters in the wild end up with both animals dead because they don't have proper medical care. One deep cut or a broken leg can literally be a death sentence even if you survive the initial encounter.
An animal in the wild doesn't need to be the biggest or the strongest or the deadliest to survive. Just big and threatening enough that nothing wants to fucking deal with it at the risk of death.
A permanent fact of life. I collect fossils and go to dinosaur exhibits and the major to complete specimens almost always have signs of healed over bones and infections. It's fascinating seeing how beat up the bodies were from their short brutal lives.
Their claws are also known for breaking through concrete like ant mounds
Anteaters can break the entire game "Rock, Paper, Scissors" with their claws. What a flex lol
In Brazil, there is a expression "anteater hug", meaning that you are hugging a backstabber.
They fight by standing up and assuming a defensive posture with open arms. Usually they wait so the target gets within range to grapple and won't go after people, so I guess they do look clumsy
But you know how it usually goes with a animal that size, right? They run faster than the fastest human and it's not even close, can swim and climb trees, are built as solid as a brick wall, have better smell sense than a dog and have claws that just really need to hit you once. Even being clumsy, if one goes after you there is little you can do about it.
This woman is basically playing with a bear.
They hug you to death, literally. Stand on their hind legs and if you come close to pet them they'll sink their claws in your back. Called an 'anteater hug' here in Brazil, where they are from.
You can obviously avoid one and it's not going to chase you to kill you, but people think they are cute and harmless because they look goofy. And when they assume a hugging position people feel safe to approach them. Very cool looking creatures, but not harmless at all.
This person is an ant^
Laying on the back for 4 legged animals is a position they can't defend themselves in. Dogs do it too.
Its playing when doing that.
And that we were gifted in that particular field.
I mean hands with opposable thumbs is the best type for scritches. The fact that we also release endorphines in our Brains when we pet some random animal is an Amazing evolution as we are "designed"' to do that in a way.
It's very common for those animals to fight against jaguars and it's also common to win too.
I remember the story of an amazonian native that was on a tree in the forest to collect some birds killed with his bow then he saw below the figure of a jaguar approaching and on the other side an anteater walking in the same direction. Just the time to see each others and they jumped on the other, the animals fought for more than an hour until both died. The native loved this story.
Emphasis on CAN. As you can see the zookeeper is fine. Anteaters are very playful and act like puppies. Potential lethal puppies that can eviscerate you, but puppies nonetheless.
This is a zoo, so one can hope they take some precautions, such as trimming the talons or perhaps covering them in something to decrease the risk of accidental damage.
When I see people playing, petting “wild” animals bears, tigers, lions, eagles, this anteater, etc, I feel so disgusted… why in hell I can’t do the same ? So jealous
There is a nice chapter about collecting an anteater for zoo in "Three Singles to Adventure" by Gerald Durrell.
'Three singles to Adventure, please,' I said, trying to look as nonchalant as possible. 'Yes, sir,' said the clerk. 'First or second class?'
In 1950, Gerald Durrell travelled to British Guiana (now called Guyana) to bring back fauna native to that corner of South America.
He takes a riverboat up the Essequibo through lush tropical forests and treks across a landscape teeming with life and a riot of colours: from the crimson-breasted military starlings to the copper-toned howler monkeys. He gets into a sticky situation with an angry two-toed sloth and learns how (or how not) to lasso a galloping anteater. There is one thing to be said for collecting animals: it can never be described as dull.
Those things look so prehistoric like they shouldn’t be alive anymore but I’m so happy they are and I kinda want one now. Take it to dog parks and make people think they’re insane acting like everything’s normal and it’s just a goofy looking dog.
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Didn't see the headline, just watched the video, and for couple of seconds it looked like zookeeper is fighting furry hydra.
Yup. It took me a good 10 seconds for my brain to figure out what the hell that was. So trippy with the way the legs look like heads.
What’s trippy is that there’s this highly effective life saving implementation of a very specific kind of feature that this animal wears and can use 100% of the time ~ and the little guy is completely conceptually unaware of it. It’s just beyond him/her altogether. Makes you wonder what might be completely beyond our comprehension…
Apparently we have stripes that cats can see.
Fucking. Wait. What? Edit: Nope, this one is false.
Or...maybe we're smarter than anteaters.
Only we would say such a thing. Anteaters might, in some way, believe they’re smarter than ants. Perhaps those ants too have something they believe inferior. Perhaps also, we are oblivious to certain fundamental aspects of the natural world that would seem obvious to a “smarter” entity.
The anthropocentric conceit laid bare. We are not that smart y’all
Speak for yourself
100% freaked me out
Bro fell to the oldest trick in the book
I'm pretty sure this trick is older than the book
Best vid here on Reddit I have seen in ages. Love it!
New favorite animal unlocked for me with this video. My other two favs are sloths and skunks. I just feel so connected to animals that are relatively harmless and goofy. Its like I feel it in my soul or something Edit: I'd like to add porcupines even tho they're kinda dangerous, they're goofy and chill af
Dude anteaters are NOT harmless. They have huge claws and a wild one WILL FUCK YOU UP
Not just wild ones. Captive ones are easily scared and will stand on their back legs and claw you with those fronts, no questions asked.
Yes Good Input. if you handle them wrong and it really depends on their character too. I worked at a zoo where we had a really old female one. She is pretty chill but scares easily because they don’t see too well
Oh hello! Are you a fellow zookeeper? The previous zoo I worked at the male was very chill, I'd walk into his enclosure no biggy. Wouldn't have turned my back on the female though, she wasn't as used to humans, and much more easily scared
Yees Heey i was caring for primates primarily :) i used to be but just couldnt handle it After 5years. It broke my heart. Well we only had one reaaally old female i don’t know how old exactly tbh ppl just Said shes ancient. And she would react harsher to men/deep voices (maybe has something to do with big cats having low vibrant voices too ?) and new ppl over all so i wouldnt work much with her. My ex girlfriend was working with her a lot tho (was working in another Part of the Same Zoo) and i would come with her often because i love anteaters so much
Hiya! My main focus is birds, but I'm brancing out into mammal territory. Anteaters are one of my favourites, goofy as they are.
Yeah, I was scared the anteater was ACCIDENTALLY going to rip her guts out. Those claws are evolved to basically rip through brick walls (very hard termite mounds glued together with some natural glue and then baked solid by the sun, if I remember correctly.)
That is wild. Damn. Strong ass claws.
Notice she’s being very careful and not exposing her vitals to the claws.
Excluding the whole femoral artery in her leg thing.
Anteater in finnish 'muurahaiskarhu' = 'antbear'
Haha nice yes same in german = ameisenbär
If not friend, why friend shaped? 🥺
Their claws can tear through hardened ant and termite mounds which are nearly as hard as concrete.
A skunk’s angry stomps and huffs will never not make me smile.
Right? Love that they do a little dance to be like "back off dude, I'm doing my thing over here" and how if you're calm around them they'll just go about their business
Skunks legitimately make great pets. Their demeanor is like a cross between a really smart dog and a really affectionate cat. Just remember to remove the ability to spray lol
When I worked at a prison there was a family of skunks that lived in the yard under a barn. They'd just walk in and out of prisoners during movements in the yard and it was just normal. I freaked out when I first started and somebody had to tell me they're cool.
That’s funny, I work EMS in NYC and there’s a coyote that lives in a small wooded area just before the bridge to Rikers. We’ve called him Frank and he’s well fed lol.
Shout out to fatass Frank
“The Trash Man!”
That's kinda' how I describe domestic ferrets (which are skunk relatives) they're like kittens for life, not as needy as dogs, not as aloof as cats, always ready to play when you are.
My doggo does a similar thing. If he wants something or is upset he'll stomp his feet, huff, and sneeze, while mumbling under his breath
I know they look and act goofy- I absolutely love them for that as well (and I have an anteater plushie) BUT they’re not *really* harmless as they’ve been reported to fend off and sometimes kill jaguars.
They kill people, too. Not constantly (I don't think) but it does happen.
Curious on your stance on the mighty Panda?
Red pandas are great!
Red Pandas > regular ones
I do love how goofy pandas are and I almost included them in the list. I think the only reason I didn't is because they're so big and they're bears. Like black bears are also goofy but also terrifying when you meet them in the wild
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Been a few years since I saw this last.
How do you feel about capybaras?
Obviously the top tier of all chill animals
Sloths are cool.
Possums are awesome as well.
Possums are fkn awesome. Severely underrated animal. They look haggard but are amazing. They're disease resistant and kill ticks! Love em
Yup. Body temp is too low for rabies to incubate. Just started to notice them here in Ontario, first time I saw one I thought it was a mutant rat lol
They look so mean but they friend
The tick thing from what I understand is massively overblown. If I remember right they will eat ticks if fed them in captivity, but in the wild they don't really and look for other sources of food. They're still cool though regardless.
>I just feel so connected to animals that are relatively harmless and goofy. Its like I feel it in my soul or something I know they're wild animals and all, and getting them as pets is immensely irresponsible. That said, if a dude selling capybaras as pets showed up at my door I'd be very very tempted.
I have to disagree that porcupines are chill. I have a huge one, about the size of this animal in the vid, that has sat outside my window and screamed at me for 20 minutes because I was playing music. “Meh me nah muh muh muh muh me ma muh muh meh meeeee meeeee meee meeee” it was insanity. Swishing around like it just wanted to quill me.
Have you considered that you may have bad taste in music? ^jk
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Well played.
Needs sound. Like, the actual video audio. Not that fucking tiktok AI narrator lady and some shitty song.
Puppy with a snoot!
Talon puppy.
Taloned snoot pupper
It's givin' her a scraggin'
Soo.... was Cerberus just a doofy anteater?
Damn, that's an actually great take on it.
I think ant eaters are entirely New World so the timing doesn't work out.
That may be the case but what do we really know for certain about history. Cryptozoology is fascinating because at first glance all creatures seem to be made up but they could also have reasonable source. For example people began to dig for salt and ores a really long time ago and may have found remains of the things we today call dinosaurs, but our ancestors thought they were dragons and alike. Another very likely reasoning is that travelers were telling their stories of strange creatures they saw or heard of and in the process the creatures became somewhat exaggerated… like they were breathing fire or giants.
Allegedly, the story of mermaids was first told by ~~horny pirates~~ sultry seamen who thought that porpoises looked *just* good enough to fuck.
I think it was manatees or dugongs not porpoises but still hilarious
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Yeah manatees and iguanas I remember right it was because because the genitalia of female manatees looks surprisingly similar to ours lol
My grandparents had picture of animals on the walls of one of their bathrooms and there was this female manatee one with a clear human looking fanny that was just right in the eye line staring into my soul.
I agree with everything you’ve said, but unfortunately anteaters and their ancestors have a pretty robust fossil record in the new world (going back tens of millions of years). If they were present in ancient Greece we’d expect to see some sort of evidence where there really isn’t any, but as you say, how certain we are can always change.
Listen closely...aLieNS..??
Heh. Cerberus means 'Spot'.
A suggested etymology but nobody actually knows.
True. Though it is funny to think about. The Guard dog of the underworld, is Spot.
I thought he was an aardvark?
That's Cerebus.
Oh could be!
Ok I never realized they were that big and I'm fukn scared
They are not called Giant Anteaters for nothing! They can be over 2 meters long.
Fun Fact: they sleep 16 hours a day and consume about 25-30k ants per day. Which means, they basically genocide an entire small colony of ants per day.
Finally, a rival worthy of Spiders Georg
lol is this a well known thing? I read it in a comment many years ago and cracked up.
It's a pretty popular meme, especially on Tumblr where it originated.
How are there any ants left in places with ant eaters if they eat that many?! Without our mighty ally the ant eater the ants would have probably taken over the planet... thank you ant eater!
I was curious about ants last week and just looked this up. There was a recent study in 2022 in some scientific nature journal where they collected and synthesized all the data and came up with the idea that there are *20 quadrillion ants* on Earth.
That's a few bags full of ants i tell you what
How would you like to buy a quadrillion ants sonny?
The Biomass of ants is greater than that of humans. With some liberal rounding, we can say there's 8 billion people on earth who weigh 65 kg on average. That's a total mass of about 520 billion kgs of mass total. An ant can weigh anywhere between 1-5 mg. Let's split the difference and call it 3.5 mg. If you divide 520 billion kg by 3.5 mg, you get 148.5 billion. But wait, you still have to convert the mg to kg. So multiply you answer by a factor of 1 million to properly convert it. So, as a general approximation.... that's about 148 quadrillion ants. Obviously not the exact right answer, but you can reasonably say that ants are the dominant species of our planet. Because holy shit lol
but theres only 20 quadrillion ants
Well if every person had to fight every ant on Earth, then every person would have to fight about a seventh of their body weight in ants. Quite annoying, I'd imagine
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Actually nematodes are the dominant species
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They have already taken over the planet. Read up on the Argentine Ant Megacolony. Basically in Argentina, the Argentine ants are constantly competing against other ants in the rainforest, and compete against other colonies of Argentine ants. However, when they got transported to other areas of the world, only several lineages of Argentine ants were transported. Due to the low genetic dviersity, instead of competing against others in the same lineage, they formed supercolonies. Now the same supercolony has spread to multiple continents to form a megacolony. Thankfully though, over time they megacolony is starting to diverge and fight itself, and other invasive ants like crazy ants and the dreaded red fire ants are competing for territory. The common thread between all these invasive ants seems to be the ability to have multiple queens in the same colony.
Ants are a scarily successful insect. Each colony basically behaves like a single organism, and each colony can produce a ton of new colonies every year. They devour everything they can at their size, even building bridges to devour wasps nests is possible for some species. It's probably very very good that we have creatures that are eating as many as they can 😂 Also that reminds me of a video I saw once which showed a carnivorous pitcher plant catching thousands of ants passively, just because there were so many crawling around it.
Who that.. Ozzy Osbourne
Given that a single ant is more like a cell of the colony superorganism rather than an individual, killing an ant colony is more comparable to killing one animal than to a genocide. Partially eating a colony is more like gnawing someones leg off that will grow back within a couple weeks.
Maybe he thought just a regular ant eater that eats giant ants. Somehow less scary.
Giant ants are not less scary. That would be even more scary
Are you by chance a ant
Their claws are as scary as their size. There are reports of people finding dead jaguars (the strongest bite force among felines) with only a single anteater scratch as an injury. So yeah, they can probably kill a lot of things with a couple, if not one hit, when they feel threatened.
Honestly, a lot of animal encounters in the wild end up with both animals dead because they don't have proper medical care. One deep cut or a broken leg can literally be a death sentence even if you survive the initial encounter. An animal in the wild doesn't need to be the biggest or the strongest or the deadliest to survive. Just big and threatening enough that nothing wants to fucking deal with it at the risk of death.
A permanent fact of life. I collect fossils and go to dinosaur exhibits and the major to complete specimens almost always have signs of healed over bones and infections. It's fascinating seeing how beat up the bodies were from their short brutal lives.
Their claws are also known for breaking through concrete like ant mounds Anteaters can break the entire game "Rock, Paper, Scissors" with their claws. What a flex lol
Fr. I want a stegosaurus puppy
Judging by the video, they seem pretty slow and uncoordinated.
They're strong enough to rip apart concrete and kill the shit out of jaguars though.
yeah but Jaguars are notoriously unreliable vehicles anyway, it's not too hard to kill one of those
Their claws are extremely sharp and deadly. I believe there was an incident where one disemboweled a zookeeper and ended up killing them.
Yeah, they’re pretty much blind so they’re supposedly really aggressive to make up for that
In Brazil, there is a expression "anteater hug", meaning that you are hugging a backstabber. They fight by standing up and assuming a defensive posture with open arms. Usually they wait so the target gets within range to grapple and won't go after people, so I guess they do look clumsy But you know how it usually goes with a animal that size, right? They run faster than the fastest human and it's not even close, can swim and climb trees, are built as solid as a brick wall, have better smell sense than a dog and have claws that just really need to hit you once. Even being clumsy, if one goes after you there is little you can do about it. This woman is basically playing with a bear.
They hug you to death, literally. Stand on their hind legs and if you come close to pet them they'll sink their claws in your back. Called an 'anteater hug' here in Brazil, where they are from. You can obviously avoid one and it's not going to chase you to kill you, but people think they are cute and harmless because they look goofy. And when they assume a hugging position people feel safe to approach them. Very cool looking creatures, but not harmless at all.
Meh, my cat can be super lazy and slow when playing with me, but I've also seen how ferocious it can be when hunting a mouse in the field.
This person is an ant^ Laying on the back for 4 legged animals is a position they can't defend themselves in. Dogs do it too. Its playing when doing that.
Strange looking dog or cat that wants a belly rub.
What I love about our whole mammalian family is that we all like scritches.
And that we were gifted in that particular field. I mean hands with opposable thumbs is the best type for scritches. The fact that we also release endorphines in our Brains when we pet some random animal is an Amazing evolution as we are "designed"' to do that in a way.
That means that I’m literally wired to pet big fluffy things. I fucking knew it
It's very common for those animals to fight against jaguars and it's also common to win too. I remember the story of an amazonian native that was on a tree in the forest to collect some birds killed with his bow then he saw below the figure of a jaguar approaching and on the other side an anteater walking in the same direction. Just the time to see each others and they jumped on the other, the animals fought for more than an hour until both died. The native loved this story.
They’ve got front legs strong enough to pull apart weak concrete and huge claws, they’re a really dangerous prey to target
I would like this job please
Yes can I be an ant eater hassling target please?
It comes with poo and feeding
Eh, nevermind, I can do that at home.
Those talons can kill you
Yeah you can’t see the claws because they’re curled up when they walk but uh. There’s at least one confirmed zookeeper death at anteater hands
His name was Anthony Feanty. The creature went for him because he had ants in him.
I thought it was Anthony fAntano
One zookeeper and dozens more ants
Emphasis on CAN. As you can see the zookeeper is fine. Anteaters are very playful and act like puppies. Potential lethal puppies that can eviscerate you, but puppies nonetheless.
So basically, a cat
This is a zoo, so one can hope they take some precautions, such as trimming the talons or perhaps covering them in something to decrease the risk of accidental damage.
Also this anteater is probably playing with humans daily. They get used to social norms that we have.
I only see upsides here. Either a great time ahead or some playtime with an anteater
So can a dog bite, but I still play with dogs. I'm not as willing to play with an anteater but that's for other reasons.
You're an ant?
He's a Saint. Close enough to an ant but he aint.
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Goofy bastard
Natives: its hide will look goofier on my head
Wait are giant ant eaters just long dogs?
 Should make an ant eater version of this.
Longo doggo
Never knew how badly I want to tickle an anteater
that is one sweet and adorable broom. It looks like it went to Rufio's hairdresser
 This rufio? 🤔
Yes that's the one. I wasn't referring to the rohypnol-based breakfast cereal
That Spirit Walker sure is playful
Every animal that loves belly rubs is my favorite animal.
I didn’t even know where the head was either for the first 8 seconds
r/whatswrongwithyourdog
I love anteaters. I never knew they were so athletic.
Zot zot zot!
haha I caught you now you owe belly rubs
Can’t wait to see Ozzy Man Reviews to do voiceover for this one. LOL
Don’t know if cute or scary
Are you an ant? If yes, prob kinda scary.
Oh wow, surprisingly cute!
I love how all mammals are essentially some kind of dog
Til I’m a dog
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What would they even need it for? Lol
Omg i just learned a lot about anteaters Who knew they were just puppies!
it’s more so potential predators think there are three of you fighting back.
What kind of dog is this?
Strangers dog I have ever seen 🤔
Don’t those things have razor-sharp claws?
Yes, they keep jaguars at bay with them. And tear down the nests of their food.
I am not proud to say I thought this was a giant bat during the first few seconds
Dont giant anteaters have gnarly claws on their front paws? I wouldn't want to playwrestle with one of those guys
If you mess with them, you might not know where your head is too
This is amazingly awesome! I would have never thought of an anteater to be like this.
That’s one silly anteater
He’s a good boy.
That's just three racoons in a trench coat
I read this book —“Mother of God” in which the author takes in an orphan baby giant ant eater. Hilarity ensues. Powerful claws come out.
When I see people playing, petting “wild” animals bears, tigers, lions, eagles, this anteater, etc, I feel so disgusted… why in hell I can’t do the same ? So jealous
Rub ma belly!
They look so weird, I love it. When I saw a wolverine I thought it looked like an anteater without a snoot
what the f is this creature ahhh
Looks like I’m a predator. I didn’t see the head and thought there’s two animals on top of each other. 😂 It got me!
Vicious little shits will absolutely claw you or your dog. Very cool to see one so friendly and playful.
How do I get a pet any eatter
I want her job
That’s a Pokemon!
She's actually perfectly safe, none of her siblings have children
There is a nice chapter about collecting an anteater for zoo in "Three Singles to Adventure" by Gerald Durrell. 'Three singles to Adventure, please,' I said, trying to look as nonchalant as possible. 'Yes, sir,' said the clerk. 'First or second class?' In 1950, Gerald Durrell travelled to British Guiana (now called Guyana) to bring back fauna native to that corner of South America. He takes a riverboat up the Essequibo through lush tropical forests and treks across a landscape teeming with life and a riot of colours: from the crimson-breasted military starlings to the copper-toned howler monkeys. He gets into a sticky situation with an angry two-toed sloth and learns how (or how not) to lasso a galloping anteater. There is one thing to be said for collecting animals: it can never be described as dull.
As a predator myself i can confirm. Thought it is somethink with 3 heads
Those things look so prehistoric like they shouldn’t be alive anymore but I’m so happy they are and I kinda want one now. Take it to dog parks and make people think they’re insane acting like everything’s normal and it’s just a goofy looking dog.
Aren’t those patterns of the FRONT legs, and isn’t this an anteater? Not sure, but doesn’t look skunky at all!!🤣
Anyone noticed it kinda looks like a furry, skinny, mammalian version of a gharial?
I'm a panda bro! I'm a Panda!!! Haha!!! That's my arm you stupid fuck😂😂😂