"Anteater" properly refers to the four species of the suborder Vermilingua native to Mexico, Central America, and tropical South America.
Anteater can also refer to any of several unrelated species which have independently and convergently adapted to fill the same niche of eating ants or termites:
Aardvark (earth pig), a medium-sized mammal native to Africa
Echidna (spiny anteater), a family of monotremes native to New Guinea and Australia
Numbat (formerly Banded Anteater), a small marsupial endemic to western Australia
Pangolin (scaly anteater), mammals found in tropical regions of Africa and Asia
See also
AnteAter is an electronica side-project of ¡Forward, Russia! singer Tom Woodhead
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