Anteater

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Anteaters are a family of edentate mammals, which have a tubular mouth with a small aperture, and a long tongue covered with a viscid secretion, which they thrust into the ant-hills and then withdraw covered with ants.[1]

  1. ↑ Nuttall Encyclopedia of General Knowledge, article on Anteater originally published in 1907 written by Reverend James Wood