ANT-EATERS

ANT-EATERS
   a family of edentate mammals, have a tubular mouth with a small aperture, and a long tongue covered with a viscid secretion, which they thrust into the ant-hills and then withdraw covered with ants.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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