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Baby Anteater Would Much Rather Nap Than Forage For Ants
The Dodo
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4/18/2024
Baby anteater learns how to eat ants with the help of his favorite teddy bear ❤️
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00:00
Goliath was found at the side of the road.
00:03
Absolutely adorable, two months old.
00:05
Sadly, his mother was hit by a car.
00:08
We went and picked him up to rehabilitate Goliath.
00:11
He was very shy in the beginning.
00:15
Initially, when we were walking him through the jungle,
00:18
in between his milk feeds, he would just cling on to us.
00:21
He wouldn't want to come off at all.
00:23
And then gradually, over time, he grew the confidence to come off us.
00:29
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00:34
We were feeding him on goat's milk.
00:36
He was really crazy about the milk.
00:39
We were taking him out to try and encourage him to discover the world of ants and termites.
00:47
He was not interested at all.
00:49
He was actually quite scared of termites and ants.
00:52
When they crawled on him, he would try and brush them off.
00:56
We would have to try and act like his mother and forage ourselves
00:59
in order to encourage him to get interested in what he should be.
01:04
Eventually, he got the hang of it and he started foraging himself.
01:08
He was still a baby and he still needed that physical contact.
01:17
So we tried to encourage him to cling on to a stuffed toy in order to protect ourselves,
01:23
but also to make it a bit more natural for him in his rehabilitation.
01:27
We always kept the milk in his life, even though he wasn't reliant on it.
01:34
It was a good way to bring him home at night.
01:36
We'd have these zoomies, his ninja moves, where he would go into this really playful mood
01:50
and you could really see his personality come shining through.
01:53
It was really sweet.
01:54
It was an amazing transformation for him to be so scared and so clingy
02:03
to actually developing this goofy personality where he'd feel comfortable enough
02:08
to play in the jungle and lie and sunbathe and go to sleep in his natural surroundings.
02:15
We decided to take that next step in his rehabilitation
02:19
because we were struggling to keep up with him in the forest.
02:22
We travelled through the night
02:28
to this beautiful reserve.
02:34
He was very scared at first because it's a completely new environment for him,
02:38
but he soon very quickly settled in.
02:44
It took just a few hours for him to realise that he was in ant and termite heaven.
02:50
You can only compare it to sending your kids off to school.
02:55
It's an incredibly bittersweet moment to see them go off.
02:59
He just knew what to do.
03:04
It was an incredibly rewarding thing to see him develop into the ant he is now.
03:11
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03:13
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03:15
[Music]
03:17
(upbeat music)
03:19
(water bubbling)
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