An anteater's tongue is about as long as your arm. The tongue is covered in tiny backward-pointing hooks and a layer of sticky spit. The anteater flicks it in and out of a termite mound up to 150 times a minute, scooping up insects with every flick. It can eat 30,000 ants in a single day.
Anteaters do not have teeth. They don't need them - they swallow their food whole, and tough muscles inside their stomach grind it up. Their mouth is a tiny circle at the very tip of their long snout, just big enough for the tongue.
Their claws are huge - more than 10 cm long. They use them to rip open termite mounds, which are as hard as concrete. The claws are so long that when they walk, the anteater has to curl them up so it walks on the side of its foot, like someone walking on the side of a curled-up hand.
Mother anteaters carry their babies on their back for around a year. The baby's fur is the same colour and pattern as the mother's, so when the two of them stand still, they look like a single bigger animal. It is one of the cleverest disguises in nature.