whilst at the gym last night I saw a programme on TV that had some chap climbing somewhere in the jungle, and various creepy crawlies, and - how exciting - a man trying to get some footage of a strange creature as it lolloped and snuffled across the plain. It took a while for me to work out what it was as it had long fluffy legs, a huge plume of a tail - and then it turned round and was blatantly an anteater.
I was talking about it with my bf later on, which gave him the opportunity to roll out one of the worst jokes I've ever heard, but neither of us was sure why anteaters have hugely fluffy tails. Anyone know?
In reply to Tall Clare: What would be really cool would be if you could knit 2 giant anteaters. A mother & baby. Then you could sew the baby onto the mothers back & it'd be really cool looking just like in the pictures.
I thought when I saw it either that they had a odd shaped arse or the had a great sense of humour and would have a dump, shape them into cubes with paws, hide in the bushes and wait for us to come along and be bamboozled, chuckling away
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> Is a pangolin also known as a spiny anteater?
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Didn't Captain Corelli have one of those? (sorry lame joke, but conjures up a great script and some great scenes involving Nicholas Cage with one on a leash).
