10 different animals

8/15/2019 10 Different Animals

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10. Giant Anteater

Although they might seem like vacuum cleaners, collecting ants like

crumbs with one big sniff of their snout, it’s not quite that easy forgiant anteaters. To capture a meal, first these mammals use their

large claws to open a colony or tree trunk. rom there, they must

act quickly, because the tiny insects they’re feasting on !on’t go

!own without a fight an! coul! sting them.

"hat look like really long noses are actually anteaters’ #aws, so they

aren’t snorting ants at all. $nstea!, they use their long tongues to

collect their meals. Accor!ing to the %mithsonian &ational 'oo

(%&'), giant anteaters’ tongues are * feet (.+ meters) long an! their

saliva acts as glue, which makes it easy to gather up their tiny

victims quickly. $nstea! of teeth, anteaters have har! growths on the

insi!e of their mouths that act like foo! processors, crushing insects

as they are consume!. %&' also reports some anteaters have been

known to swallow small stones that continue the crushing process intheir stomachs. At one sitting, giant anteaters can eat a few

thousan! insects within minutes, so they nee! all the kitchen ai!

they can get.


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. -eafcutter Ant

-eafcutter ants are !ifferent from other species of ants in the way

they make their foo!. $n fact, accor!ing to the hicago/base!

-incoln ark 'oo (-'), these ants are the first animals known to

cultivate their own crops like farmers. They get their name because

of their ability to cut leaves from trees with their scissor/like

man!ibles. nce leaves are cut, each ant carries a leaf back to the

colony where the leaves are a!!e! to a pile, similar to a compost

heap. "orker ants then a!! their feces or saliva to the leaves,

which acts as a kin! of fertili2er to help the leaves grow fungus.

They later use the resulting fungus to fee! ant larvae. "hile the

baby ants eat the nutrient/rich fungus, a!ult ants feast on sap that’s

also pro!uce! from the leaves.

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3. &ursery "eb %pi!er

The male nursery web spi!er’s mating ritual inclu!es a recipe for

romance. 4e knows it takes more than #ust showing up on a girl’s

web to mate with her, so this eight/legge! asanova goes above

an! beyon!. The spi!er will take an insect that’s lan!e! in his web

an! wrap it tightly in silk like a beautiful gift. nce the male nursery

web spi!er sets his sights on a mate, he takes the silk/wrappe!

insect an! presents it to his la!ylove. "hile the female nursery web

spi!er en#oys 5 an! is !istracte! by 5 this tasty treat, the male

makes his move an! mates with her. %ometimes !esperate times

call for !esperate measures, an! a male spi!er might wrap up a

non/e!ible ob#ect, like a small pebble, if an insect can’t be foun!.

This gift is still accepte! by the female, but the male has to act fast

because she will attack when she unwraps the offering an! reali2eshis act of !eception.

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9. :gyptian ;ulture

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+. roco!ile

The smile of a croco!ile is one of its most recogni2able features, but

these scaly reptiles have never ha! table manners an! !on’t use

their teeth for chewing their foo! properly. $nstea!, they use their

large chompers to catch an! hol! prey in a !eath grip before

swallowing it whole. f course, this tactic only works on small

animals, so croco!iles use their teeth an! #aws like blen!ers on

larger victims. They will grin! up their super/si2e! meals until the

foo! has been broken !own into more manageable bites, an! if the

croco!iles !ine on har!/shelle! creatures, their teeth act like

nutcrackers 5 breaking the shells to get to the meaty center.

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>. ?e! %quirrel

@ust like its gray cousin, the re! squirrel gathers nuts an! grains

!uring the summer an! fall in preparation for winter, but this bushy/

taile! woo!lan! creature has one other trick up its sleeve when

winter rations begin to run low. $t bites into the si!e of a maple tree,

poking holes in the bark an! then waits for the sweet maple syrup to

!rip from the tree’s center. After the syrup has !rie! on the tree

bark, the re! squirrel will return to lick the sweet resi!ue. Accor!ing

to ern! 4einrich, a naturalist an! author of


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F. &orthern %hrike

Anyone who’s ever eaten corn on the cob knows how han!y those

little corn/shape! skewers are at making it easier to chow !own,

an! one clever bir! employs a similar metho! to han!le its meals.

The &orthern shrike, a songbir! mostly foun! in southern ana!a

an! the northern 8nite! %tates, captures insects an! other small

vertebrates an! then skewers them onto thorns, spiny stalks or

even barbe! wire fences. These sharp ob#ects make eating a lot

easier for the shrike, as he can take off what he wants in small

pieces an! return later for more. Accor!ing to ornell 8niversity, the

shrike also uses this metho! so it can eat poisonous insects. After

sli!ing its victim onto the skewer, it waits a few !ays for the toCins to

!ry out an! then returns to feast on its catch.

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*. urying eetle

This beetle’s foo! preparation metho! is so unique, it was name!

for the process. The i!ea behin! the technique the burying beetle

uses is similar to how a human might preserve items through

canning or free2ing, to keep foo! fresh while halting the growth of

bacteria. "hen the beetle fin!s a !ea! bir! or ro!ent, it imme!iately

sets about preparing the meal for its young. irst, it covers the

carcass in oral secretions that are antibacterial an! antifungal an!

slow the !ecaying process. &eCt, the beetle !igs a hole for the

carcass an! lines the area with the fur or feathers it strippe! from

the !ea! animal. Then, it puts the preserve! carcass in the tomb

an! !igs a nest for its own baby beetles right neCt !oor, so that the

larvae can fee! on the carcass easily. This entire preservation

process takes only about eight hours, making your gran!ma’s all/!ay canning sessions seem eCtra long.

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1. 4oneybee

&o count!own about animals an! foo! woul! be complete without

paying homage to the honeybee. This stripe! bee is the only insect

that pro!uces foo! available for human consumption, an! it !i!n’t

earn the name


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