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It is a solitary animal and gives birth to a single young, up to twice a year. The young are born already furred, and with a similar colour pattern to the adults. They begin to take solid food when they are about one-third of the adult mass. The young is usually placed inside a nest of dead leaves
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toes, with the latter being much larger. The fourth toe is very small, and lacks a claw, while the other two toes are vestigial or absent, and are not visible externally. The hind feet have four toes of equal length, each with long claws, and a vestigial
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Bianchi, Rita; Maldonado, Arnaldo; Vilela, Roberto do Val (December 2019).
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while in captivity. The silky anteater defecates once a day. Some of those faeces contain a large quantity of
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Silky anteaters are the smallest living anteaters and have proportionately shorter faces and larger
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Sunquist, M.E. & Montgomery, G.G. (1973). "Activity pattern of a translocated silky anteater (
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