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Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute...

 

At the Brevard County Zoo I saw a remarkable episode where a giant anteater was playing with a keeper, chasing a palm frond the keeper was pulling behind him as he ran. The light wasn't adequate for me to get good pics of it, and I haven't seen any videos on the web that are comparable to what I saw. It was sort of the last critter I'd imagine playing with you like that, and it makes me wonder whether those would make decent pets, if you provide the food they needed and didn't mind something that was the height and twice the length (that tail seems pretty stiff) of a rather big dog. And those claws are pretty formidable.

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Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute...

 

At the Brevard County Zoo I saw a remarkable episode where a giant anteater was playing with a keeper' date=' chasing a palm frond the keeper was pulling behind him as he ran. The light wasn't adequate for me to get good pics of it, and I haven't seen any videos on the web that are comparable to what I saw. It was sort of the last critter I'd imagine playing with you like that, and it makes me wonder whether those would make decent pets, if you provide the food they needed and didn't mind something that was the height and twice the length (that tail seems pretty stiff) of a rather big dog. And those claws are pretty formidable.[/quote']T

 

They can very affectionate, if raised from youth. Gerald Durrell has a chapter about one 'Sarah Huggersack' they raised, in The Drunken Forest. But you're right about the claws - their main predators are jaguars, and they defend themselves well. One South American zookeeeper lost a leg to a giant anteater, a few years back.

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