Mammalia · Pilosa
Giant Anteater
Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Edentate mammal with an elongated tubular snout and a 60-cm sticky tongue capable of flicking in and out 150 times per minute.
- Realm
- Terrestrial
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Data provenance
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and version Evidence snapshot
A sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 1289 licence-filtered records across 78 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (35)
- APE Guatiquia (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Banco de Hábitat Meta (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Bloque Mapache (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Caracterización de fauna para el establecimiento de nuevas Reservas Naturales de la Sociedad Civil en Arauca (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Censo rapido de especies en recorrido de PVC (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Consorcio Casanare Biodiversa 2014 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Fauna Mamíferos Cinaruco Norte_2021 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Fauna Mamiferos_Cinaruco_2014 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Informe final monitoreo de fauna área de explotación campos Cubiro y Copa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Informe final monitoreo de fauna área de explotación campos Cubiro y Copa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Informe final monitoreo de fauna y flora área de explotación Bloque Arrendajo (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Informe final monitoreo de Fauna y Flora para el área de explotación campos Careto y Arauco año 2023 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Interconexión Cuestecitas – Copey – Fundación 500/220 mil voltios (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Levantamento de Mamíferos no estado de Minas Gerais para o projeto Conexão Mata Atlântica (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- MONITOREO CAMPO DE PRODUCCION COSECHA_2025_I (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Monitoreo de signos y huellas de fauna medinate senderos en el Refugio de Vida Silvestre Pambilar (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Paisaje Jaguar Test (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Rapid Inventory 26 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Reconocimineto de potenciales áreas nucleo y pasos de fauna (aéros y subterraneos) , en el municipio de Tame,Arauca, Colombia (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Registro Monitoreo participativo comunitario (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)