The discovery surprised little people about ants

Ants eat no teeth. They use their long and sticky tongue to catch prey. This tongue is narrow, there are many sharp spines on the tongue and can be up to 60cm long.

Ants eat ants and termites through small holes at the top of ant nests. They never destroy these ant nests. Anteater must eat very fast because of fear of being burned. They can stick their tongues up to 150-160 times / minute to catch enough ants to eat without being bitten by ants. An anteater can eat up to 30,000 ants every day.

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Ants eat ants and termites through small holes at the top of ant nests.

The stomach of the anteater is specially constructed to crush large quantities of ants and termites, which facilitates digestion. This stomach produces formic acid instead of hydrochloric acid commonly found in other mammals.

Anteater has poor eyesight but its ability to sniff is very sensitive, 40 times higher than human. They use their nose to find food. Antibacterial body temperature is 32.7 ° C, lower than other mammals and placenta. If living in nature, anteater can survive for 15 years and 25 years if kept in captivity.

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Ants eat about 15 hours a day.

Ants eat about 15 hours a day . Its claws up to 10cm long are used to protect themselves from enemies like jaguars or cougars. Ants eat in 190 days and only give birth to one child per litter. Feeding ants will stay with their mother for two years until ants eat their mother again. In the first year of life, your mother will eat pig on her back.