The Silky Anteater is the world's smallest anteater, the size of a large mouse, with golden silky fur and a prehensile tail that it uses to grip branches as it moves through the forest canopy. It is entirely nocturnal and arboreal, rarely descending to the ground, and uses its hook-like claws to tear into arboreal ant and termite nests. It reaches the forests of southern Mexico at the northern edge of its range.
Habitat
Tropical rainforests and mangroves of Mexico and Central America
Diet
Ants, termites, and other small insects
How common
Very rare
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