Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2023/09/22/watch-tammy-the-giant-anteater-slurping-up-food-with-her-2-foot-long-tongue.html
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Isn’t that an amazing creature? No wonder scifi artists strain to come up with utterly alien space aliens when such anatomical diversity abounds right around us. Just look at the amazing skeleton (just look at it) (“but how does the tongue linkage work?”)
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This is a wonderful thing. 
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A while back I drew a gargantuan anteater sticking its tongue into a cave system to eat adventurers (cave in cut-away. Ah, yes, must’ve been right around last father’s day…
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Cool. I’m a huge fan of Guy Davis, and your artwork tickles that spot.
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I love that they hide food for Tammy to find. Just a reminder that the narrow head does not mean anteaters lack intelligence or that they don’t need mental stimulation.
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All that eating looks like aardvark.
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SchlorpSchlorpSchlorpSchlorpSchlorp
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30,000 ants and termites per day
Tammy, you are welcome to my apartment for an ant feast any time you please.
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Tangential whinge:
Can’t watch the vid. Can’t dl the vid.
This happens A Lot, here and on tumblr. It can’t be b/c the vids’ sources are blocked by my ad blockers, since vids uploaded to tumblr (as opposed to posting links to youtube vids) have all the gobblegook from the source site removed & magically become tumblr vids for all in tents and porpoises. I am able to watch all yt vids, but only some from insta & tiktok.
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If it’s any help, it looks like me when I eat my breakfast.
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awwwwww-inspiring!
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That’s a brilliantly devious critter. I kind of want you to write/draw Grimtooth’s Bestiary.
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omg I love this!!
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I do like the pattern on the dress too!
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Yes!!!
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My girls love to design dresses so we’ve been doing historic fashion studies for inspiration. This one is a study of 1920s fashion, you can see the dress I copied 3rd from the left bottom row. Their drawings are somewhere but they burn through a lot more sketchbooks than I do. I loved this pattern, and it reminded me a lot of the golden age of illustrators I regularly study from
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Don’t mess with these creatures. There are news about people being killed by ant eaters.
https://vet.ufmg.br/clipping/homem-morre-ao-ser-atacado-por-tamandua-em-diamantina/
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Aunt eaters. 
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