Tamandua

Giant anteaters usually eat up to 35,000 insects a day!!! some special types of anteaters such as tamandua and the silky anteaters travel from branch to branch to search for some tasty insects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once they learn to walk, the free ride is over—tamandua toddlers have to find ants on their own. ❋ Andrew Bleiman (2010)

* Seeing the tamandua anteater swim across the Alto Madre de Dios river and then emerge at the other side. ❋ WENDEE HOLTCAMP (2006)

Hanging from vines, mud fights in the hot springs, swimming - and paddling - down the Alto Madre de Dios River in the Amazon basin, wildlife monkeys, macaws, tamandua, many birds and insects and even a bushmaster - a very venomous snake, almost getting kidnapped by a cab driver in Lima, and being 'mosquito candy'.... but my heart was taken by the beautiful Yine Indian children who had such open and kind spirits. ❋ WENDEE HOLTCAMP (2006)

Asmouelle the tamandua, stood be - fore the narrow wooden oval that was the Quorum table and glared at his colleagues. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1984)

I looked up, and there, ten feet above, was a furry tamandua anteater slowly climbing a straight purpleheart trunk, while around and around his head buzzed and swore the little fury -- a pinch of cinnamon feathers, ablaze with rage. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

While journeying through the interior of Brazil I not infrequently came across the big tamandua, the ant-bear or ant-eater. ❋ Unknown (1916)

In South America concealing coloration plays no more part in the lives of the adult deer, the tamandua, the tapir, the peccary, the jaguar, and the puma than it plays in Africa in the lives of such animals as the zebra, the sable antelope, the wildebeeste, the lion, and the hunting hyena. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)

As soon as we saw the giant tamandua we pushed off in a rowboat, and landed only a couple of hundred yards distant from our clumsy quarry. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)

Several times we saw the tamandua bandeira, the giant ant-bear. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)

Out in the open marsh the tamandua could neither avoid observation, nor fight effectively, nor make good its escape by flight. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)

The tamandua throughout most of its habitat rarely leaves the forest, and it is a helpless animal in the open plain. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)