Anteaters

The spiny anteater is more correctly known as the echidna, and the scaly anteater is more correctly known as the pangolin.

In fact, neither the pangolin nor the echidna is a true anteater. Pangolins live in Asia and Africa; echidnas live in Australia and New Guinea. True anteaters live in the Americas, and there are four extant species: the giant anteater, the silky anteater, the southern tamandua and the northern tamandua.

© Haydn Thompson 2018