Myrmecophagidae
The myrmécophagidés ( Myrmecophagidae ) are the tamanoirs or fourmiliers , which nourishes Fourmi S and of Termite S. the muzzle of myrmécophagidés is conical and very length, just like their language, which enables them to excavate the dwellings of their preys. Myrmécophagidés secrete a sticky substance their salivary glands which recovers their language, which enables them to catch the Insectes. Their ears are small and round, their eyes are small. Their tail is long and often Préhensile. Their hands have five fingers, each one carrying a sharp-edged claw, the third claw being developed more.
He lives in the marshy forests, zones and the opened plains, and is primarily diurnal (credit the day) in the little populated zones (but he is night in the zones densément populated). Coarse peeling is gray, with a black band bordered of white on each shoulder, and the tail is long and bulky. The former claws, which are used to him to break the termitières and to be defended, are so long that they are folded up; the animal walks on the knuckles.
The long language returns and leaves the small oral opening quickly and collects the termites and other insects by making them adhere on its sticky surface.
The two species of small fourmiliers or tamanduas are size of a large domestic cat and have a short and coarse peeling of color varying from ocher to the noirâtre, with usually a black band around the body and of the neck. They also live in the trees but frequently go down from there. The dwarf fourmilier and the tamanduas are primarily night and walk on the outside of their forefeet because the length of their claws.
The tamanoirs are characterized by their solitary manners and their rate of weak reproduction. The female carries the single small one on its back during its growth; that can last a year almost. Other nonrelated with tamanoir and sometimes called mammals myrmécophage fourmiliers are the Oryctérope, the echidna, the Pangolin and the Numbat or marsupial fourmilier.
List kinds
- Myrmecophaga Linnaeus, 1758
- Tamandua Gray, 1825
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