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[Narrator] Man, monkeys got it made.

A prehensile tail.

I want me one of those.

Someone tell that monkey I want a prehensile tail too.

Wait!

That's no monkey.

It's not even a primate.

It's the Silky Anteater,

the most adorable of its insect-eating kind.

If it looks baked or sleepy to you,

that's because it is.

Sleepy, I mean.

The Silky Anteater is a nocturnal hunter,

so it's a bit out of sorts here in the daylight.

But at night, it makes its way through the trees,

hunting for cheetahs.

I jest, of course.

It's ants.

Using those big claws,

it rips open bark to get at the colony within,

snatching up the ants with its long sticky tongue.

The Silky Anteater is careful to move along quickly

so the ants don't have a chance

to overwhelm it with bites and stings.

It only manages to snatch 1% of the ants in a colony.

The Silky Anteater has its own predators

to worry about as well.

Enter the Harpy Eagle,

perhaps the world's most formidable raptor,

with talons five inches long

and a wingspan of six and 1/2 feet.

It can snatch an anteater right out of a tree,

no problem,

which is why the Silky limits its movements

to the evening hours.

So stay safe, little one

and maybe consider some Visine.

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