Nearly extinct

Usage examples of anteater.

Most of our birds and reptiles, and our lemurs, rhinos, orang-utans, mandrills, lion-tailed macaques, giraffes, anteaters, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, zebras, Himalayan and sloth bears, Indian elephants and Nilgiri tahrs, among others, were in demand, but others, Elfie for example, were met with silence.

Here, pangolins from Asia, carnivores from North America, hoofed creatures from Africa, European insectivores like ancestral hedgehogs, and even anteaters from South America mingled and competed.

I could make out a warthog and a line of anteaters trundling nose to tail.

South Pacific, and since Onar had this anteater gig, he talked me into coming down here with him.

Fortunately, I had a prior relationship with Onar, and I made sure that he was the anteater whom Meta West sent down here to deal with Mr.

The anteater was a descendant of South American stock, which had wandered here over temporary land bridges many generations before.

The scent, fur, cry, scat, and teeth markings on half-consumed fruit, the prints through duff of an anteater, are all mentally noted.

Simna to suspect it was some kind of arthropod siphoner, like an anteater or echidna.

If the shan-kossief was big enough, it could conceivably drag the entire vessel beneath the surface where it would proceed to pick them off as efficiently as an anteater would glean a termite nest.

Owen, nearest to the Cape Anteater, but in some other respects it approaches to the armadilloes.

Every so often, like an anteater, he buries his nose and comes up gasping.

The warriors were carrying the giant anteater figurine and Scarface had a sharpened branch and a miniature club in its forelegs.

The viruses the Endangered Species Replacement Program used had been designed to replace, bit by bit, the genes that made a human being human with those that specified an anteater, a rhinoceros, a giant tortoise, a.

First he slew a snowshoe rabbit cleaving it in twain with a single blow and then he slew a spiny anteater and then he slew two rusty numbats and then whirling the great blade round and round his head he slew a wallaby and a lemur and a trio of ouakaris and a spider monkey and a common squid.

For being himself a small creature, he recognized the excellence of many small things, and he knew that the scaly anteater, the pangolin, was to be honoured even more than the lion, and the praying mantis, an insect, was more worthy than the elephant or the gemsbok, for in each of them reposed a special part of the godhead of nature which he worshipped.