How does its bushy tail help?

It covers the body like a blanket

Giant Anteater Quiz: A Long Sticky Tongue and Huge Claws

This giant anteater quiz walks on its knuckles across the grasslands of South America. Play 10 interactive questions on a tongue up to about 60 cm, flicking many times a minute, tens of thousands of insects a day, no teeth, claws that rip mounds open, a bushy tail used as a blanket, babies riding on mothers' backs and threats from fires and roads.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Range
Where do giant anteaters live?
Tongue
About how long can its tongue reach?
Flick
How fast does the tongue move?
Food
How many insects might it eat in a day?
Teeth
How many teeth does a giant anteater have?
Claws
What does it use its front claws for?
Walk
How does it walk to protect its claws?
Tail
How does its bushy tail help?
Baby
Where does a young anteater ride?
Threat
What threatens giant anteaters?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Where do giant anteaters live?
Answer: Central and South America
Grasslands and forests are home.
Q2: About how long can its tongue reach?
Answer: About 60 cm
It is sticky with saliva.
Q3: How fast does the tongue move?
Answer: Very fast, many times a minute
Feeding visits are short.
Q4: How many insects might it eat in a day?
Answer: Tens of thousands
Ants and termites are prey.
Q5: How many teeth does a giant anteater have?
Answer: None
Its stomach grinds food.
Q6: What does it use its front claws for?
Answer: Ripping open nests and defense
They are very long.
Q7: How does it walk to protect its claws?
Answer: On its knuckles
Claws curl inward.
Q8: How does its bushy tail help?
Answer: It covers the body like a blanket
It sleeps under it.
Q9: Where does a young anteater ride?
Answer: On its mother's back
Its stripe lines up with hers.
Q10: What threatens giant anteaters?
Answer: Habitat loss, fires and roads
They are listed as vulnerable.

A Long Tongue and Big Claws

The giant anteater lives in grasslands and forests of Central and South America. It has no teeth. Instead, a sticky tongue up to about 60 cm long flicks in and out many times a minute, lapping up tens of thousands of ants and termites each day.

Huge front claws rip open termite mounds and defend against predators like jaguars. To protect them, the anteater walks on its knuckles with claws curled inward. Its bushy tail can cover the body like a blanket when it sleeps.

Young anteaters ride on their mother's back, their stripe lining up with hers as camouflage. Habitat loss, fires and road traffic threaten giant anteaters, which are listed as vulnerable.

What This Quiz Teaches

Animal fans will enjoy these questions.

Where anteaters live
How their tongue works
Why they walk on knuckles
How babies travel
What threatens them

Did You Know?

They have a poor sense of sight.
Their sense of smell is excellent.
They feed briefly at each nest.
They can swim across rivers.
Their snout is long and tube-shaped.