Biography Muravieded

She stepped, poorly said, they stole everything there! Muravedes are found in many countries of America, the main selection criterion is the heat. If the temperature does not fall below 22 degrees Celsius, then this region is suitable for them. Varieties of ants: giant, four-fingered and dwarf, each species is unique in its own way. But there are common features that are characteristic of each ant.

It is interesting that their own body temperature, they have reduced to 33 degrees, and therefore the metabolism is slowed. But even with such metabolism, gigantic ants have to eat 30 thousand per day. Hence the question: what size are these nose mammals? Giant ants reaches 1.5 meters long, plus the tail is still a meter. Weigh kg. The giant antedead four -fingered Tamandoa Muravede, along with the tail, is 1.3 meters, and the maximum weight is only 5 kg.

Tamandua dwarf ants is a crumb, which barely reaches 20cm, and the tail is another 18cm. The weight of the baby does not exceed gr. The dwarf murian uniting the feature of all the incomplete name for the submarine is a unique gait, the ants go, relying on the outer back of the foot, since long curved claws interfere with the step on the entire sole. This gives them the look, clubfoot and awkward animals.

Lovers of insects divided the habitat so that everyone has enough food. A giant anteravian lives only on Earth, in his conduct, all terrestrial anthills and termitects. As a house, he uses her personally dug pits shallow. Rests all daylight hours, hiding behind his fluffy tail, creating a shadow. With the onset of twilight, when all the ants are sleeping peacefully by their “cribs” he begins to attend.

A giant antealist behind the meal of Tamandaa, a beast living on the ground and on trees, but more on trees. As housing, he uses natural crevices, hollows, which he furnished and arranges with great comfort, of course there is no TV, but there is definitely a soft crib. Life a few meters above the ground made his body more suitable for this. Tamandua’s tail is short -haired, unlike the royal tail of his giant counterpart and has grabbing properties, if necessary, an antead can catch on a branch and hang.

The four -fingered anteded is named, by the corresponding number of fingers on the front limbs. During sleep, Tamandois can be seen hanging on a branch, it clings with claws on the front paws, which is very reminiscent of the sloth. This species is active both at night and in the afternoon. Tamandaa poses on the camera dwarf antes, live only on trees, but, as you know, it is not easy to see them at all, given the tiny growth, and the density of foliage.

Shelter is created in hollows. They are awake only at night, which are very similar to giant ants. And in the afternoon they sleep, wrapping the branch with all their parts of the body and at the same time look very nice. The dwarf antes during meals, all the ants look the same. As a bear in the Russian folk fairy tale "Teremok" tried to crawl into the house and destroyed everything, so the anthills look after visiting an anteravian.

With sharp claws, the predator breaks any obstacles: earth, bark, foliage, etc.

Creating chaos in a peaceful, before the kingdom of insects, the beast in its sticky tongue begins to lick ants. There is nothing to chew on him, there are no teeth, so you have to swallow right away, and already in the stomach, ants, under the influence of ants and digestive juices that enter into a chemical reaction, die. Surprisingly, in the stomach of the predator, hydrochloric acid, so necessary for digestion, is not produced.

The knuckle of the ants is elongated, the jaws open on a very small angle, while the lower is very poorly developed, but the tongue. The length of the tongue compensates for the shortcomings of the structure of the skull, or rather, these shortcomings appeared over several hundred centuries of evolution precisely because the language took over the entire function of eating. The speed of the tongue during eating is equal to movements per minute, and thanks to natural stickiness, the salivary glands are trying, everything that came to the tongue to the ants cannot be torn.

Approximately, like a tongue in the frost, iron swing licks. Muravieded’s vision and hearing is average, but the sense of smell is excellent, with the help of which he accurately searches for food. Parents from the ants are first -class, the baby is brought up only in a full family, and the father takes half the worries about the little ants. The female feeds the baby with milk for up to 6 months, while complementary foods are introduced - partially processed insects, which parents expect a cub in the mouth.

Immediately after birth, the cub, thanks to his sharp claws, rises along the wool on his back to his mother or father and sits there up to a year, a giant antedead with a cub and then still dragging behind them until it matures so much as to start his family. So, you can often see how an adult Muraviede drags on the back of his mature infantile offspring.

Tamandua with a teenage cub live in wildlife until 18 years old, in captivity they can live up to 25 years, if not fed with sweets. And if you feed sweet then less, but better.