Crested Anteater Small 320×306 Medium 640×612 Large 1024×979 Download Tiff Original 3194×3053 | (9.3 MB) Description Anteaters are toothless four legged mammals. They have elongated heads and sticky tongues. It tears open ant and termite mounds with its strong claws and uses its long sticky tongue to withdraw the insects it then eats. Keywords anteater, Crested anteater, Edentata, Mammalia, mammals Galleries Mammals: A-B Source: Worthington Hooker, Natural History (New York:Harper & Brothers, 1882) 74