When attacking an ant-castle, the tamanoir strikes a hole in the wall of clay with his powerful, crooked claws.
2
This thrust-and-parry game continued for some minutes, and might have lasted longer, had it not been for the young tamanoir.
3
The tamanoir of Buffon is called uaraca by the Indians; it is irascible and courageous, which is extraordinary in an animal without teeth.
4
Just at this moment the tamanoir, having turned round to address some conversation to her young companion, espied him, and sprang to her feet.
5
The chief creature engaged in that work is this most extraordinary denizen of the forest-theant-bear ,orgreat ant-eater(Myrmecophaga jubata), called also the tamanoir.
6
The missionaries call them osso carnicero, to distinguish them from the osso palmero or tamanoir (Myrmecophaga jubata), and from the osso hormigero, or anteater (tamandua).