Mud Baths? Yep — Anteaters Have Some Pretty Interesting Habits

Name: Mud Baths? Yep — Anteaters Have Some Pretty Interesting Habits
Uploaded: 2025-12-02T17:31:47+00:00
Duration: 2 min 12 s
Channel: Wild Times at the San Diego Zoo
Description: Meet Nico and Zola, Reid Park Zoo's two giant anteaters, and learn about some of their more interesting habits.

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Meet Nico and Zola, Reid Park Zoo's two giant anteaters, and learn about some of their more interesting habits.

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00:00The giant anteaters are a large mammal that are insectivores, and they are found in Central and South America.

00:11They are currently listed as vulnerable, which means their populations in the wild are stable,

00:16but that they are very subject to becoming endangered.

00:20We currently have two giant anteaters here at the Reed Park Zoo.

00:24First, we have Nico, who is 16 years old and was actually born in Germany as part of the species survival plan.

00:30Then we have Zola, who is 6 years old, and she was born here at the Reed Park Zoo,

00:34and she tends to be a little bit more laid back, where if there's an opportunity to nap, she's going to take it.

00:41The anteaters are fed every day an insectivore pellet diet,

00:45which is a pellet form that encompasses the nutrients that they would receive in the wild,

00:50and they absolutely love avocado.

00:52The anteaters actually do not have teeth,

00:55and so we have to feed them food that they can slurp up with their tongue really well,

00:58and avocado is the perfect slurping food.

01:03Just like kids, anteaters do need to shower every day,

01:06but unlike kids, the anteaters need water in order to poop.

01:09So the anteaters will always go over to water,

01:11and even if they just got to put their feet in, that's when they know that it's time for them to poop,

01:14and then they will also take a bath in that water.

01:16Since it is very warm in South America, that if there's a really nice water shower,

01:22and it's still very warm out, that they will go ahead and give themselves that bath.

01:26But they also do love little pools of water, and they will like go dunk themselves right in and start combing.

01:31One of the things we do for the showers is we bring out a hose for the anteaters,

01:35and we literally mimic like a shower, and we'll have it kind of spray over them,

01:39and then that encourages their natural behavior of going into water,

01:43and you'll literally see them start to comb right away once they get into it.

01:46The best part about working with anteaters is their personalities,

01:56that they are so different, and they're so strong personalities,

01:59and my favorite thing that they absolutely do is their yawn every morning.

02:03The first thing they do when they wake up, and I know they're going to get out of the bed,

02:06is they have this big yawn, and 18 inches of that tongue slurps out of their mouth and slurps right back in.

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