Giant Anteater on the Llanos

Giant Anteater on the Llanos is an original illustration set in Venezuelan Llanos. It lies in equatorial latitudes, where the climate is tropical savanna — a pronounced dry season.

A giant anteater crosses seasonally flooded grassland in side profile, showing an elongated tubular snout, tiny ears, a bold diagonal black-and-white shoulder band and an enormous bushy tail. Low palms stand scattered across the wet plain.

Why does an anteater have no teeth at all?

The snout houses a tongue longer than the head, flicked into ant and termite nests many times a minute — an animal with no teeth at all. The huge tail is a blanket, drawn over the body when sleeping in the open. Flooded grassland with scattered palms is a plain that fills each wet season and dries out completely each dry one.

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