Identifier: allaboutanimalsf00newy (find matches)
Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bros
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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GREAT ANT-EATER. THE ANT-EATER. The Great Ant-eater belongs toSouth America. It differs from theaardvark in that it has much smallerears and a huge, bushy tail nearlythree feet long. The coloring of thistail is so odd that when the animal isseen asleep it looks like a bundle ofhay loosely thrown down. The and greathas
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LITTLE ANT-EATER. creature is seven feet lon^earned its name from its habit of feed-ing on ants. A gentleman who was returningfrom an orchid hunt in Brazil had a finechance to watch one. The sun hadalready gone down and darkness set inquickly, as it does in the tropics, and themoon had risen, so there was enoughlight to see by. The hunter walkedsome distance until his eyes met astrange - looking clump of grass, as hebelieved. Suddenly he realized that itwas an ant-eater. The creature awoke, stretched itself, and rose to its feet.The ant-eater always walks on the sides of its feet, for its claws are too longto stretch out like a mans toes. This ant-eater hobbled off toward a giganticants nest, and standing on its hind legs, dug its claws into the top and crum-bled the wall down. Immediately the ants came pouring out in all directions.The ant-eaters tongue then swept them into its mouth. This tongue is longand thin, and is covered with a slimy substance to which the ants stick. Ittwists

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