Giant anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla. Great ant-eater, Myrmecophaga jubata. After an illustration by Charles Reuben Ryley in Museum Leverianum, 1792. Copperplate engraving by James Heath from George Shaw’s General Zoology: Mammalia, G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London, 1800.

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