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Anteaters are the four mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua commonly known for eating ants and termites. Together with the sloths, they compose the order Pilosa. The name "anteater" is also colloquially applied to the unrelated aardvark, numbat, echidna, and pangolin.Species include the Giant Anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla, about 1.8 m (6 ft.) long including the tail; the tamandua or collared Anteater Tamandua tetradactyla, about 90 cm (3 ft.) long; and the Silky Anteater Cyclopes didactylus, about 35 cm (14 in.) long.The term "spiny anteater" is used to refer to echidnas, which consist of the Tachyglossidae family of the order Monotremata.

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There are many different kinds of anteaters in the world, but none of them are monotremes. All anteaters are placental mammals.There is an animal nicknamed the "spiny anteater". Its proper name is echidna and it is not a true anteater; nor is it even related to anteaters. The echidna is a monotreme, and native to Australia and New Guinea. Australia and New Guinea have no true anteaters.


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What kind of anteaters? In South America there are the Giant anteater and its relatives such as the the tamandua and pigmy anteaters. In Australia and Papua New Guinea there are the spiny anteaters, also called echidnas. In Australia there also are other kinds, such as the banded anteaters or numbats. In Africa there is the aardvark or ant bear and then there are the scaly anteaters or pangolins; some kinds of pangolin live in Africa and some in Southern Asia. There also are other animals that eat various kinds of ants and termites, and some of them are called anteaters, such as the Oecobiidae, spiders that eat mainly ants. Common names (such as "anteater" can be very misleading. For example, many so-called anteaters prefer termites.)


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