Here’s another northern tamandua from Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica. These guys are a medium-sized anteater with a prehensile tail. Unlike giant anteaters, tamanduas climb trees, where they spend about 40% of their time. They have a tongue that is well developed to lap up their favorite cuisine — which of course is ants — and they have an unusually long claw on both forefeet, enabling them to rip through wood to find those ants. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 310mm) ISO 1600, f/4 at 1/160th of a second
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Here’s another northern tamandua from Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica. These guys are a medium-sized anteater with a prehensile tail. Unlike giant anteaters, tamanduas climb trees, where they spend about 40% of their time. They have a tongue that is well developed to lap up their favorite cuisine — which of course is ants — and they have an unusually long claw on both forefeet, enabling them to rip through wood to find those ants.
oh what great pic. today. )
My school mascot (the anteater) at UC Irvine! Naturally, I love these guys.
Now I just need to get some shots of the giant anteater — at the top of my to get list.
From this angle his markings look as though he is wearing shorts with shoulder straps. Very unusual animal.
Or overalls.
—– Mighty of singlet
—– With agility arboreal
—– Can any ant be safe .
What a beautiful creature! It looks like its coat is soft, but I wonder how soft it really is?
They look soft in person too, although I can’t say I’ve ever touched one.