0 a type of anteater (= a mammal that eats ants or termites and has a long nose and tongue and no teeth) that lives in trees in South America:
Researchers have found evidence of two smaller but related animals: the silky anteater and the northern tamandua.
These are the three very different ant-eaters of South America: the gazelle-sized giant of the savannahs, the squirrel-sized pygmy from the forest canopy, and the monkey-sized tamandua from its mid-storey.
In the last 12 months the zoo has celebrated the birth of a tamandua anteater.
There are two species of tamandua, the northern and the southern.
The tamandua is about the size of a miniature schnauzer, and about as active and mellow as a lazy house cat.
