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dense, silky, gray to golden-brown fur across its body, sometimes tinged silver on the back. Some South American populations have a chocolate brown stripe down the middle of the back, most prominent in the Amazon basin. The tail is extremely prehensile, and the limbs display adaptations to help it grab items while climbing. Unlike the other anteaters and many other unrelated obligate ant-eating mammals, the silky anteater's face is only slightly longer than expected for an animal of its size and shows a strong

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