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How can natural selection account for the long snout of an anteater?
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In the population of anteaters then and now we have variants. Organisms that have little differences in morphology and behavior. Against the anteaters immediate environment, specifically it's way of making a living ( eating ants ) there were some anteaters with better length snouts. These anteaters were selected by being better able to survive eating ants and thus they were more reproductively successful. So, the alleles for this successful traits were passed to progeny who had the same traits and over time the snout of anteaters changed, adapted, better to the way they made their ant eating living. This is evolution.
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What are the particular characteristics of an anteater?
The anteater has a long snout. Since the anteater is toothless, it has a long tongue that it uses to catch the ants. The anteater uses its snout and claws to reach into ant nests. The anteater has long hair as a protection against bites from the ants that they hunt and eat.
Special features of an anteater?
-the anteater has teeth but the teeth is very tiny the Tapir(an animal) looks like an eater - the anteater has a long tounge and that means it slurps up ants and other insects -the anteater lnose ooks like a pigs snout
What adaptation do anteater have?
They have a long snout to help suck up the ants, disguised as a feather to hide from predators.
How do I say the following words in Spanish monkey anteater snout tail legs trunk horns?
monkey=mono
Is an anteaters nose soft?
No, you can try it...but it does not. The anteater's snout is made of bone on the inside.
Mammal of South and Central America with an elongated snout?
The coati is a mammal that has a long flexible snout and brindled coat from Central and South America. The omnivorous mammal is larger than the raccoons that they are related to.
How is each of these lizards adapted to its environment?
First of all, the purpose of natural selection is to "weed out" the organisms in a species with imperfect qualities. Basically, it's evolution's way of making the species that best it can be.An anteater eats insects (namely, ants) by sticking its snout and tongue through anthills and the ground. Obviously, the longer the snout of the anteater, the more possible bugs it can reach and, therefore, eat. So, over millions of years, anteaters with shorter snouts were not able to reach enough bugs and ended up dying. The anteaters with longer snouts had more food available because they could reach more bugs, so they were able to live long enough to reproduce and produce offspring with the preferred trait: having a longer snout.
Are anteaters and aardvarks the same thing?
Anteaters and Aardvark are not the same animal but they are, the main difference is that the Anteater has a longer snout than an Aardvark
What body part helps the anteater?
its long snout helps it smell out ants and then eat them. im pretty sure
What has a thick tail and a snout about 3 meters long fury big claws and tail that goes to a point?
That would be the anteater. Except I don't think the snout is quite three meters long. Three meters is ten feet.
What south american mammal resembles a small llama?
A South American mammal with an elongated snout might be an anteater or a tapir.
Do anteaters have teeth?
No. An anteater licks up its food through its long snout and uses its long rubbery tongue to squish the food against the roof of its mouth.
