I WILL GIVE U BRAINLIEST Giant anteaters live in Central and South America. As their name suggests, they eat ants and termites. First, an anteater tears open insect nests with its long claws. Then, it extends its extremely long, sticky tongue into the nest to catch its prey. One anteater eats 35,000 ants and termites in a day.

Taxonomists first classified aardvarks as close relatives of anteaters. Later, they moved aardvarks to a completely different order within the mammals. How do taxonomists decide classification of organisms in the Linnaean system?




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Anteaters belong to the order Pilosa, while aardvarks belong to the order Tubulidentata. There are four anteater species, and only one aardvark species. ... One other difference is that anteaters are very hairy and have small ears, while aardvarks have short fur and long ears.

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