southern tamandua
collared anteater or lesser anteater
tamandua tetradactyla latin

The southern tamandua uses its powerful forearms in self-defense.

But we saw no snakes, just crab-eating foxes and another Southern Tamandua.

The southern tamandua is a medium-sized anteater, though can vary considerably in size based on environmental conditions.

The individual and geographic variation observed in the southern tamandua has made the taxonomic description of these animals a difficult task.

Tamandua tetradactyla, the southern tamandua, also known across South America east of the Andes.

In fact, the southern tamandua is quite clumsy on the ground and ambles along, incapable of the gallop its relative, the giant anteater, can achieve.

Among the animals on display are two-toed sloths, golden lion tamarins, silvery marmosets and southern tamandua.

Southern tamandua (T. tetradactyla)

Two anteaters, the southern tamandua and the silky anteater are found in Trinidad (but not in Tobago).

Both the giant anteater and the southern tamandua are well represented in the fossil record of the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.

One of the prize exhibits is the southern tamandua, a tree-climbing anteater with an improbably long proboscis, rich golden fur and a prehensile tail.

In the rainforest, the southern tamandua is surrounded during the day by a cloud of flies and mosquitoes and is often seen wiping these insects from its eyes.

The southern tamandua is listed as CITES Appendix II in southeastern Brazil.

A. nodosum is a specialist that lives exclusively on the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) and the Southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla).

Northern (Tamandua mexicana) and southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) There are several extinct genera:

The fauna is represented by: spectacled bears, jaguars, (both endangered species), armadillos, parrots, opossums, howler monkeys, deer, ocelots, pumas and southern tamandua.

Tamandua is a genus of anteaters with two species: the southern tamandua (T. tetradactyla) and the northern tamandua (T. mexicana).

The southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla), also called the collared anteater or lesser anteater, is a species of anteater from South America.

Although it has the same diet as the giant anteater, both animals are able to live alongside one another, perhaps because the southern tamandua is able to reach nests in trees, while its larger relative cannot.

Bob the Southern Tamandua loves the ants that live all around him in the World Tree, and he's always trying new things out to make them like him more (He does eat ants).

We came across capuchin monkeys and tamarins swinging through the trees, red-footed tortoises retracting into their shells, cutias (small rodents), marsh deer, Brazilian tapirs, a raccoonlike ringed-tail coati dashing across our path, and a small anteater called a Southern Tamandua climbing up a tree branch.

The southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla), also called the collared anteater or lesser anteater, is a species of anteater from South America.

"Tamandua tetradactyla" from Animal Diversity Web.

Tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla)

Honey bear, or ka'aguaré tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla)

A. nodosum is a specialist that lives exclusively on the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) and the Southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla).

Northern (Tamandua mexicana) and southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) There are several extinct genera:

The southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla), also called the collared anteater or lesser anteater, is a species of anteater from South America.

The two anteaters of the genus Tamandua, the southern (Tamandua tetradactyla) and the northern tamanduas (Tamandua mexicana), are much smaller than the giant anteater, and differ essentially from it in their habits, being mainly arboreal.