Giant Anteater vs Termites | South America's Weirdest Animals | National Geographic Wild UK
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- Giant anteaters have very poor eye site but their noses are so sensitive, they can distinguish which species of termite lie within a mound.
After locating a source of termites, claws 4 inches long are used to dig into the mound, before a 2 foot tongue is used to reach them. On an average day a Giant ant eater can eat 35,000 termites.
South America is a land of extremes, many hundred thousand square miles of forests, grasslands and mountains. Existing here is a daunting proposition, and some well-known animals have adapted by growing large or very small, each strategy maximising their chance of survival.
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“She looks like she’s been drawn by a 7 year old on a sugar rush”
He didn’t have to flame the ant eater like that 😂
1:45 something
Remember your arrogance? Broken and broke.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Those anteaters look still cute though
Yeah poor ant eater man 😂
It's crazy an animal that big can sustain itself on just ants and termites.
Blue whale: "Am I a joke to you?"
Bugs are high in protein. All animals do is eat and sleep
Ants are literally the most biomass
@@thecreator6065 ya but it’s just crazy to think about because they’re so small and stuff
They have the lowest body heat of all mammals so they have a slow metabolism
Man that camera shot is epic
Hell yea
Facts
Big money making companies
It is staged and top of the line editing
Yeah how did they put the camera inside the termite home?
To have a proper understanding of how powerful an ant eater claws are termite mounds are almost as hard as concrete. Now you know why jaguars will hesitate to attack them.
Yeah, it's basically like picking a fight with a really big guy armed with several sharp knives.
Absolutely! Exactly my thoughts.
It's the Freddy Krueger of the animal kingdom
Yes
This is just straight false. I've knocked over plenty of termite mounds that looked exactly like the ones in this video.
If I came to you one day and said "phil, each day i eat my body weight in ants" you would put me in an institution. Why do we let anteaters get away with it.
Double standards bro, double standards
Answer is in their name, stoopid
BeCAusE tHeyRe AniMaLS
Because there's one quadrillion ants in the world? Idk lol
@@ChupeTTe we r nut ?
Imagine being a termite and seeing that licki boi just come in and slurp up hundreds of your friends... straight nightmare fuel.
Attack on Titan…
Wilbur Soot got beef with these guys
yea🙄
For a good reason. 32, in fact
Can't imagine how scary it would be for the ants to see something like that invading their nest. A massive tentacle like tongue devouring everything in sight...
I don’t think ants have the capacity to experience fear.
@@RobertSmith-iu1sl Panic, surely
Some attack on titan pov type shit 😂
@@RobertSmith-iu1slright, well let me make you ponder. Imagine us humans being attacked by a giant slimy tongue when we are hiding in our houses 😮
@@conpa18danyi really don't think ants are capable of feeling fear, they act more like a factory whose only purpose is to expand.
The ants are the machines who help make even more machines to expand the factory.
I can understand why Wilbur hates anteater’s now. They are terrifying. I mean they are kinda cute but oh my god-
I don't get what he says about they walking at both directions lmao
i came here after seeing phiz video and saw this. now i know im not the only one who wanted to see what he ment
@@sharasheridan3558 same
It ain’t that terrifying cuz she eats ants not us
The only thing that seems unpleasant to me is the 2ft tongue
*I bow to the National Geographic camera crew. That was some sick filming. Also, I was very grossed out with that last scene where the two-foot-long tongue went in for the catch.*
I thought the same❤
Exactly what I had asked even before seeing you comment. How in the hell did they get a cam corder in that mound to film that tongue slopping up all them nasty insects
This explains why wilbur hates this guys
I’m here for the same reason lmao
Is Wilbur your boyfriend?
@@dabeast2499 same
I don’t get it
@@st8shbya863 search up Wilbur Soot hates anteaters
Such a majestic looking creature delegated to eating small insects. Though if you were to look from the perspective of the ant, realizing the animal's true form would be such a Lovecraftian eldritch discovery
Dont be arrogant or Ile call the police.
Such an odd path evolution took with the anteater. One of nature's most unlikely creatures, right up there with the platypus and the ostrich.
And the pangolin, and the bat fish, and the vampire bat, and the tuatara, and the sea squirt!
The kiwi bird is literally evolutionary speaking the worst animal
@@wooshifgay462 that goes towards pandas
@@hernandez4856 kiwi birds are as defenseless as the fruit they are named after, they can only live with islands with no mammalian predators, their eggs are also the size of an ostrich egg
@@wooshifgay462 i love them already thank you for sharing
I’ve never watched more National Geographic then I have during Covid
I'd started my interests in wild life documentaries after the lockdown in the uk. Actually I've been following this since late April! Newcomer. Thanks covid 19.
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Wow that footage of the ant eater whipping it’s tongue inside the termite home is like a horror movie
I can't think now about anteaters without thinking about Wilbur
1:44 I can just imagine the ant eater watching this video and feeling rly sad XD
🤣
Why, you shouldn’t feel sad it’s a part of life to hunt your prey just like we brutally kill a cow to come back to a nice steak and you don’t seem to cry when you eat a burger
@@Puekaw630 he’s talking about the fact that the narrator said that the anteater looks like it’s been drawn by a 7 year old
Lol
Termites getting prey: HEHE SNATCH HER
Anteater: pfft *uno reverse card*
Those weren’t even termites. Those were headlight Beetles it said it in the video
@@2nerC9 *beetles
Imagine if people were tiny and lived underground and we had to fear an invasion of this monster. Whipping it’s tongue along our streets and homes, slurping up whole families..frickin terrifying
Moonshine mob in a nutshell
this is the funniest comment ive seen all day
I laughed so much with your comment.🤣🤣🤣
0:50 that time-lapse looks so neat
I was not expecting that light show. That's amazing
Can't believe some guy spent 15 years studying them.
I love how so many people are here from Wilbur and phil
Not sure why I watched this video, but I’m glad I did
People are saying the anteater is ugly. Meanwhile here I am watching this while holding my anteater plush.
Just remember that someone has spent 15 years studying them and published a book that is anti climatic .
35,000 a day to each ant eater, that’s why South America doesn’t have a termite problem lol
Hahaha
Giant anteaters are endangered though, and there are only about 5000 left
@@nikolaiblm1255 wow! Any explosion lol
@@jimlepeu577 To be fair, there are three other anteather species in the world, none of which are endangered like the giant anteater is
@@nikolaiblm1255 OK 👍🤠
I am absolutely impressed by those camera shots!
These clips are a bit exaggerated, but this shot of the tongue is just incredible.
Well, nature documentaries are like that, without the drama it would be boring
Cameraman good job
Wow! 👍
Wow!!This is very interesting!!Love it!!
Ikr
@@pearl._.9497 ķ
Ok nj
Ink on in in in ok ok i
@@nitamariapulanco9137 jj no in in jj in
its pretty cool that ants probably cant feel fear because they have a lot to be afraid about
Imagine being a termite, the last scene could make an action movie
I seen one today. A beautiful creature. Truly a spectacular creature.
3:24
"AHH SMOKERS GOT MEE!!"
Imagine having a tongue like an anteater...
You'd be a King
Let's hope Wilbur Soot does not see this video
They look like they should’ve gone extinct with the dinosaurs
This must be exactly all other specie's thoughts about us.
I came here from the video where Willbur Soot told how much he hate anteaters
Now i see why wilbur doesn't like anteaters-
Absolutely interesting and incredible 😶👀🥰
This camera has a better close up than any security camera in a bank.
Can you see the beauty of creation of God. No imperfection at all!!
Fact: Giant anteaters can & have killed Jaguars.
Anteaters eat ants, ants bite my toes so I happy
LMAO ARE WE ALL JUST HERE FROM WILBURS HATRED FOR ANTEATERS
absoluelty. I kinda understand ,they're faces are very strange looking
what's a wilburs
@@williamtimothy2537 @WilburSoot on twitch.tv
yes, and after seeing this we all agree with him
I can't with this. So dramatic yet it's about termites and an ant eater 😂😂
P f f t I love how almost every comment on this animal planet video is about a British Minecraft youtuber’s hate for anteaters
Someone send that to Wilbur.
Fascinating
Glad I clicked
Big CONGRATULATIONS for camera man 🤝
He doesn't care even inside a tiny hole🤣
I can see why Wilbur hates these things
where to get this animal. my house got many termites
South america ma friend
We got lucky it decided to eat ants, imagine that thing going carnivore, jumping and leaping from trees. Those claws look serious. 😮
Big shoutout to the ant who is carrying the camera
Props to the editor for shrinking himself to get inside
"nO hE dIdN't sHrInK hImSeLf tO sEe ThE tErMiTeS!1!1!1 hE pUt ThE cAmErA iN!1!1!1!1 !!1" r/wooosh
@@ythewoodpeckerfan5286lol
Anteaters are dope as hell
I'm here from watching Sammy the snail getting devoured but this giant ant eater has cheered me right up, mother nature is marvelous... rip Sammy 🙏
This is me when i have my milkshake.
Especially those at the bottom of the cup.
What a cool creature...
Best photographer
I now agree with Wilbur's hatred for anteaters
Wow super amazing 😍😍❤️😘
Wow, incredible
Amazing, but uck so digsuting to look at those Ants
Thanks for this information
wilbur soot.
Wow. We learn everyday
Any one else here from Wilbur soot
I had seen them in Australia and they are quite awesome!
Best camera ever
The green glow is amazing
*Vow of the Disciple Day Oners having PTSD Flashes*
Fascinating and how in the dickens did they get the cam corder in that termite mound to film the tongue slopping up insects is what I'd like to know.
Woh thats a really huge *snout!!*
Mast xa😂❤
Wow...beautiful
what a capture!!
Brilliant
i love anteaters
Said no one ever
@@joykitheka1190 i love them
If you take the anteater's skull and blow into its nose it plays a beautiful song recounting the animal's entire life. And then security escorts you out of the museum.
Evolution is a beautiful thing
They look cuddly with that thick fur
What a design. My admiration for the one who did it
Dude,this is cool
Mounds at night look like Christmas trees😁
And The Anteater is Evil Santa
The Giant Anteater is def in my top 5 favorite animals. 35,000 ants a day!
I understand why Wilbur hates anteaters. They really are awful, oh my god.
Why does this guy sound so serious lol
One thing murders 10000000000things....hmmm be the ant
It is!!!thats what live is
Amazing video
Cool!
Ants: exist
Anteaters: can u dont
Anteaters are cute! and sweet!
Some people spent 15 years just for ant eaters
This is the proof that nature is balance. We humans should stop abusing the Nature 🌲❤️
So cute
That thing is so cool
Wow nice animal 😱😱 really it's ant eater 😮😮