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adaptations from any
species that
wishes to
access them.
Physical traits of
myrmecophagous animals include long, sharp,
often curved frontal claws for digging...
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sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), also
known as the
Indian bear, is a
myrmecophagous bear
species native to the
Indian subcontinent. It
feeds on fruits,...
- animals") is an
extinct clade of stem-pangolins. They were
insectivorous (
myrmecophagous),
possibly fossorial, and
lived from the
middle Paleocene to
early Oligocene...
- tube-shaped
snouts filled with tiny teeth. They have been
interpreted as
myrmecophagous,
adapted to prey on
colonial insects such as termites, with the short...
- doi:10.1644/895.1. S2CID 86110792. REISS,
KAREN ZICH (2000). "Feeding in
Myrmecophagous Mammals". In Schwenk, Kurt (ed.). Feeding. Elsevier. pp. 459–485. doi:10...
- Pangolins,
sometimes known as
scaly anteaters, are
mammals of the
order Pholidota (/fɒlɪˈdoʊtə/). The one
extant family, the Manidae, has
three genera:...
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Aardvarks (/ˈɑːrdvɑːrk/ ARD-vark;
Orycteropus afer) are medium-sized, burrowing,
nocturnal mammals native to Africa.
Aardvarks are the only
living species...
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Other caterpillars have
evolved from ant-loving to ant-eating:
these myrmecophagous caterpillars secrete a
pheromone that
makes the ants act as if the caterpillar...
- by ants. Many of these,
including species in
tribe Clavigerini, are
myrmecophagous,
placating their hosts with
glandular secretions while eating the brood...
- to the
front of the ant and
grabs it over the back of its head. Such
myrmecophagous species, however, do not
necessarily refuse other prey items, and routinely...
