How do anteaters get their food?

Wild giant anteaters spend most of their day looking for food. Foraging on the ground, they prey predominantly on ants and termites, which live mostly in ant/termite hills and dead trees. They are also known to eat other insects, including things like soft-bodied grubs. read more

Although it's true anteaters eat ants, they also eat other types of insects as well. If you have a question like that, just type it into Google and you'll find something good (especially if it's a Wiki page). read more

First, anteaters use their sense of smell which is roughly 40x that of the human ability to sniff out their food. When they find an anthill/termite mound, they use their long sharp claws to dig into it. Then, they sick their nose into the hole they created and lap up the ants with their long sticky tongues. read more

The giant anteater is the most terrestrial of the living anteater species. Its ancestors may originally have been adapted to arboreal life; the transition to life on the ground could have been aided by the expansion of open habitats such as savanna in South America and the availability there of colonial insects, such as termites, that provided a larger potential food source. read more