💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐾🐜 A giant #anteater mother walks through the Brazilian #grasslands with her pup riding on her back for camouflage.

They use powerful claws and a tongue nearly 60cm long to catch up to 30,000 #insects every day. Ant eating is so successful that it evolved at least 12 separate times in different species.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/a-giant-anteater-mother-and-pup-hunt-termites-in-the-wild?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=giant-anteater-mother-pup

#animals #babies #brazil #cute #grass #hunting #insectivores #nature #parenting #southamerica #termites #tksst #video

🐾🐜 A giant #anteater mother walks through the Brazilian #grasslands with her pup riding on her back for camouflage.

They use powerful claws and a tongue nearly 60cm long to catch up to 30,000 #insects every day. Ant eating is so successful that it evolved at least 12 separate times in different species.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/a-giant-anteater-mother-and-pup-hunt-termites-in-the-wild?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=giant-anteater-mother-pup

#animals #babies #brazil #cute #grass #hunting #insectivores #nature #parenting #southamerica #termites #tksst #video

#NewSpecies!
New mole from the #vietnam just surfaced:

Euroscaptor darwini

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4E787F99-92EF-55A8-8E49-17C3F85D68BC
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1255.161942
#ZooKeys #EuroscaptorDarwini

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #mammalogy #mammals #insectivores #mole

@KateShaw has made a great new episode about anteaters:

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/11/04/episode-405-anteaters-and-the-capelobo/

this may or may not be subtoot about what went on on #monsterdon recently.

#ants
#anteaters
#xenarthrans
#insectivores