ant bear

Then I saw a little group of them, like ants bearing a victim.

Others have been found in the burrows of warthogs and ant bears.

They came to a place where one of the wagons had run into an ant bear hole and been badly damaged.

With half his stomach shot away, he had crept into an ant bear hole and kept them off until his last round was fired.

It's known as ant bear It is famous because it is the only mammal without teeth.

Matatu led him to an abandoned ant bear hole in the thorn forest nearby.

Third, a live grouse with its legs tied together; fourth, the soft, tanned pelt of an ant bear.

Smallboy had driven the lead wagon over the underground burrow of an ant bear and the earth had collapsed.

Within a dozen strides GoffePs horse hit an ant bear burrow with his off fore.

For a moment, he stood silhouetted against the darkening dusk sky, an impossibly small ant bearing an incredibly large splinter of sugarcane.

The mousemaid crumbled a piece of bread and watched the ants bearing the fragments away, her face a strange picture of wonderment.

Batlokwa then started drinking from such holes and since then they decided that nobody should harm the ant bear and it must be protected at all costs.

The giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), also known as the ant bear, is a large insectivorous mammal native to Central and South America.

The grey was staggering, throwing out its hoofs sloppily at each stride, and was too far gone to see and avoid the ant bear burrow in its path.

In appearance the creature was almost identical with the South American ant bear of the outer crust but highly specialized as to size, because of the enormous ants upon which it fed.

The flowers drop, and the red-brown stems that bore them twist and coil, spiraling back to the earth, where ants bear them to other parts of the garden, where they germinate.

The park also has a variety of nocturnals that include civet, genet, black backed jackal, porcupine, slender white tailed mongoose, caracal, pangolin, ant bear, serval, bush baby, night ape and several other species.

With four men walking ahead of the lead truck to guide it around ant bear holes and other concealed obstacles, they struck out directly southward and within two hours had intersected the overgrown disused track Alphonso had told Sean about.

Little Jamie had his own pony, and father and son rode along the veld carefully avoiding the six-foot holes dug by the ant bear, deep enough to engulf a horse and rider, and the smaller holes dug by the mere-cat.

He stopped once where he had left his steel-jawed spring trap, and he hid it in an ant bear hole and kicked sand over it, obviously too sick and weak to carry it or to cache the valuable trap more securely.

Several items of that kit - the bones of an ant bear and the bones of a springbok - could only be given to her by full-fledged witch doctors when they divined that she was ready to receive them (a process that took more than 10 years).

As we clambered over vast roots, he pointed out a yellow and black millipede that squirts cyanide from its bottom, a colony of leafcutter ants bearing their booty like miniature windsurfers, the ungainly descent of a guan or "crash-landing bird" and the vivid red bracts of "hot lips" heliconia.