How to Use anteater in a Sentence

anteater

noun

• The anteater is one-way, the orangutan is one way, the koala is one way.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• The redfish, on the other hand, were like anteaters that had just knocked over a fresh mound.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Head inland to catch a glimpse of anteaters, sloths, monkeys, and bats.
  — Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2023
• There was also the question of how the anteater got rabies.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 19 Apr. 2022
• Deep within the nest and with thicker walls, this chamber protects the queen and the king if, say, an anteater takes a swipe.
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• There are three different species of anteater: the aardvark, the giant anteater and the pangolin.
  — Zoe Sayler, Smithsonian, 21 Mar. 2018
• Her initial hunch was right: The two groups of silky anteaters were different.
  — National Geographic, 11 Dec. 2017
• Kelly-McClish worked with eagles, hawks, anteaters, sloths and a chameleon.
  — Stephen Ruiz, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• There was no pictures of the suspect anteater in another pose.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Also known as scaly anteaters, the world’s eight species of pangolins are split evenly between Africa and Asia.
  — Rachel Nuwer, National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2016
• All eight species of the scaly, anteater-like mammals are threatened with extinction.
  — National Geographic, 20 Dec. 2019
• The jaguar appears to lunge for its potential prey, but the anteater stands up, opens its arms wide, and lashes out at the jaguar with claw flashing.
  — National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2018
• Here a volunteer cradles Valentina, an anteater that had third-degree burns from the fires in the Amazon.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2019
• Also called the lesser anteater, the tamandua uses its long snout to sniff out ant, termite and bee colonies.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 6 Jan. 2023
• Over the years--as his single fox was joined by a bat, a newt, an anteater, a cuckoo, and so on--Dudley became widely renowned for his collection.
  — Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2012
• But slow-moving animals like sloths and anteaters, as well as smaller creatures like frogs and lizards, may die, unable to move out of the fire’s path quickly enough.
  — Natasha Daly, National Geographic, 23 Aug. 2019
• The top contenders, as of the fall, were pangolins, a scaly, anteater-like mammal found across parts of Asia and Africa, though no specific source animals had been identified.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2020
• Africa’s pangolins are under increasing threat from traffickers who sell the meat as well as the scales of the anteater for use in traditional Chinese medicine.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2018
• An aardvark is an odd African nocturnal mammal sometimes called an anteater.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Looking like an anteater straight out of Game of Thrones, these scaly-skinned mammals are hunted for meat and prized for their scales, which are used in traditional Chinese practices.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 16 Feb. 2023
• Sharp, slightly vinegary formic acid is the one-carbon volatile acid, a chemical weapon found in ants and other insects but turned against them by the anteater, which relies on it to help digest them.
  — Harold McGee, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2020
• Liang said while the origins of the virus were still being studied, research suggested that bats may have been one of the hosts and that pangolins, a type of anteater, may have been an intermediate host.
  — Author: Kim Tong-Hyung, Matt Sedensky, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2020
• One was a dwarf squirrel, only a few inches in length; two were opossums known to nosh on insects and fruit; another was a tamandua, a type of anteater with a vestlike patch of black fur.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2022
• Orban said, offering the example of anteaters using their 2-foot-long tongues to seek termites and other insects.
  — Sarah Haselhorst, Cincinnati.com, 8 June 2020
• Owen considered the animal might have been an insect-eater, breaking open termite nests like an anteater, but it is now known to have been herbivorous in its habits.
  — Smithsonian, 8 May 2018
• Recent additions include a jaguar exhibit, a giant anteater (!!) and a pirate train ride.
  — Mary Colurso, AL.com, 6 Aug. 2017
• Pets like cats, dogs and hamsters; zoo animals such as big cats, primates and hippos; farmed mink; and wildlife such as deer and anteaters are among the animals in which Covid-19 infections have been reported.
  — Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• Webb Miller has found similarities between the thylacine's genome and that of the numbat, a marsupial anteater native to western Australia (right).
  — Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2015
• The photograph in question, above, was taken by Brazilian wildlife photographer Marcio Cabral and features an anteater feasting on a termite mound at night.
  — Gabriella Paiella, The Cut, 30 Apr. 2018
• Maned wolves, pumas and anteaters, meanwhile, were attracted to woodland and forest vegetation remnants found within ranch lands.
  — Kate Brooks, Smithsonian, 30 Sep. 2017

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