Giant anteater: Clues from Nature

Question 1 · multiple choice

Choose the habitat that best matches the everyday needs of a Giant anteater.

meadows, roadsides, gardens, and migration stopovers with flowers flower-rich woodland edges, gardens, and meadows grasslands, savannas, wetlands, and open forest humid lowland rain forest and leaf litter

Question 2 · multiple choice

A scientist analyses food remains from a Giant anteater. Which result is most likely?

plankton, fish eggs, and small schooling fish filtered from water animal dung rolled or buried for food small fish and aquatic insects ants and termites taken from many colonies

Question 3 · multiple choice

Which time-use clue would fit a Giant anteater rather than the other choices?

may be active by day or night depending on temperature and people activity follows the presence of liquid water forages by day or night and migrates over long distances hunts mainly by day near the water surface

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which movement pattern makes sense for the body design of a Giant anteater?

walks slowly on eight stubby legs with claws walks on its knuckles to protect long front claws flies through water using broad front flippers swims below branches and makes precise surface approaches

Question 5 · multiple choice

What specialised feature helps a Giant anteater solve an everyday survival problem?

long legs keep the body away from biting prey enhanced smell, hearing, and electrical sensitivity compensate for reduced eyes a narrow snout and tongue reaching rapidly into nests collect insects club-like appendages accelerate rapidly and crack shells with impact and cavitation

Question 6 · multiple choice

A field diary describes the early life of a Giant anteater. Which entry is correct?

the female seals herself inside a tree cavity while the male delivers food females attach many jelly-coated eggs to underwater plants alternates between a tiny attached polyp and a free-swimming medusa one pup rides on the mother’s back and its stripes align with hers

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which relationship pattern is normal for a Giant anteater?

mostly solitary outside mothers with young colonies divide labour among queen, workers, and seasonal drones pairs maintain long bonds and reunite with ritualised dances mostly solitary and strongly territorial

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which ecosystem job can be connected to a Giant anteater?

concentrates plankton into a food source for scavengers through waste limits social-insect colonies without usually destroying an entire nest recycles nutrients, disperses seeds, and reduces parasites around droppings moves energy from aquatic prey to riverbank ecosystems

Question 9 · multiple choice

What protection strategy best matches a Giant anteater's body and behaviour?

orange-black warning colours advertise stored toxins uses agility, chases, and sharp bill displays rears up and sweeps powerful claws when unable to escape bright warning colours discourage predators from tasting it

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A giant anteater has no teeth and grinds swallowed insects with muscular stomach action.

True False