While I'm waiting for more photos to come off Ben's camera traps by the Lodge or mine, I revisited his files from 2009. I was intrigued to find this tamandua, or anteater (Tamandua mexicana). This is a really neat animal, buff and black, with a thin sticky tongue that is more than a foot long used to eat small insects. It has a prehensile tail, handy for the life in the treetops. I wouldn't consider tamanduas rare, but neither are they seen all that often on the ground. This one was photo-captured along the Sylvester Village Road, near Chan Chich Lodge.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Tamandua anteater
While I'm waiting for more photos to come off Ben's camera traps by the Lodge or mine, I revisited his files from 2009. I was intrigued to find this tamandua, or anteater (Tamandua mexicana). This is a really neat animal, buff and black, with a thin sticky tongue that is more than a foot long used to eat small insects. It has a prehensile tail, handy for the life in the treetops. I wouldn't consider tamanduas rare, but neither are they seen all that often on the ground. This one was photo-captured along the Sylvester Village Road, near Chan Chich Lodge.
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