3.With a tongue like that anteaters don't need to bother with teeth.
4.Giant anteaters are really good at what they do. They eat more than 35,000 ants and termites every day.
5.Anteaters are cunning. When they feed, they don't completely destroy the nests so they can return later to feast on more ants.
6.Giant Anteaters' scientific name means "ant-eating with three fingers," but that's selling them short because they actually have five awesome toes on each foot.
7.Their claws are so big and sharp that they walk on their knuckles to keep them out of the way.
8.They can use these badass claws to fight off jaguars. Jaguars.
10.They're misunderstood. In the 1700s, most Europeans believed that all anteaters were female and that they mated with their noses. Try not to think about that too hard.
11.Anteaters are practical. They use their babies to make themselves look bigger and protect themselves.
12.Anteaters know how to use what they've got. Their sense of smell is 40 times stronger than ours.