EDENTATA

Mali 2010Ecuador 1965Paraguay 1972
Glyptodon
Glyptodon
(Glyptodontidae)
Seven-banded armadillo
Dasypus septemcinctus
(Dasypodidae)
Giant Armadillo
Priodontes giganteus
(Dasypodidae)
Paraguay 1969Paraguay 1972Ecuador 1965Paraguay 1969
Giant Anteater
Myrmecophaga tridactyla
(Myrmecophagidae)
Southern Tamandua
Tamandua tetradactyla
(Myrmecophagidae)
Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth
Choloepus didactylus
(Bradypodidae)
Pale-throated Three-toed Sloth
Bradypus tridactylus
(Bradypodidae)


Glyptodon
Glyptodon
(Glyptodontidae)
(EDENTATA)
Doedicurus
Doedicurus
(Glyptodontidae)
(EDENTATA)
Giant Armadillo
Priodontes maximus
(Dasypodidae)
(EDENTATA)
Megatherium
Megatherium
(Megatheriidae)
(EDENTATA)
Giant Anteater
Myrmecophaga tridactyla
(Myrmecophagidae)
(EDENTATA)
Northern tamandua
Tamandua mexicana
(Myrmecophagidae)
(EDENTATA)
Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth
Choloepus hoffmanni
(Megalonychidae)
(EDENTATA)


An anteater, an armadillo, a sloth belong to Edentata.
The anteater does not have the tooth and the rostrum of anteater is slim, and head long torso 100-120cm, Japanese blue magpie 60-90cm, but have a tongue having a long which there is around 60cm. It break an ant and the copy of the termite with a powerful pick and it is with a tongue with the adhesiveness and marries the ants which came out and eats.
The armadillo has 8-11 obis of the trunk at head long torso 40cm, Japanese blue magpie 30cm. The back side does not have hair, and it is covered to the board that the mobility called the scute board is firm. When it was attacked by a foreign enemy, it is empty puts a leg below, and thrust a stomach well in the ground and protect this part. It dig a tunnel having several doorways on the embankments and live.
Head long torso of sloth is 60cm, the tail do not divide the finger of the hand and the leg extremely briefly, and the sloth holds the nail which curved for a long time of 10cm. There is it to a high crown in a tree in the daytime directly, but sometimes goes down to the lower layer region of the forest at night. Because it is suitable for life that it hangs from a branch, it is degree the walks are often found, and it scratches the ground in wound, the hand and the leg on the ground, and at last to be able to move.

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