anteater• They may be subdivided into anteaters that burrow, anteaters that climbtrees and anteaters that wander over the ground.• Mammals with non-spiny armour include the twenty-onespecies of armadillos and the seven species of pangolins, or scalyanteaters.• In the Old World they have a counterpart in the form of the strange, scaly anteaters, the pangolins.• The most primitive of the armoured mammals are the five species of echidnas, or spinyanteaters, from Australasia.• And yet, such sensitive elongations the anteater had, too, uncomplicated by assertions of power, even over ants.• The anteater couldn't have existed before the ants.