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Baby Anteater Would Much Rather Nap Than Forage For Ants
The Dodo
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8/5/2024
Baby anteater learns how to eat ants with the help of his favorite teddy bear ❤️
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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.
00:12
He was very shy in the beginning.
00:16
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.
00:24
And gradually, over time, he grew the confidence to come off us.
00:34
We were feeding him on goat's milk.
00:37
He was really crazy about the milk.
00:42
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.
00:50
He was actually quite scared of termites and ants when they crawled on him.
00:53
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.
01:05
Eventually, he got the hang of it and he started foraging himself.
01:14
He was still a baby and he still needed that physical contact.
01:18
So we tried to encourage him to cling on to a stuffed toy
01:21
in order to protect ourselves, but also to make it a bit more natural for him in his rehabilitation.
01:29
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.
01:38
We would have these zoomies, his ninja moves, where he would go into this really playful mood
01:43
and you could really see his personality come shining through.
01:46
It was really sweet.
01:52
It was an amazing transformation for him to be so scared and so clingy
01:56
to actually developing this goofy personality.
02:00
It was a great way for him to be able to express himself.
02:04
To actually developing this goofy personality where he'd feel comfortable enough to play in the jungle
02:10
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.
02:26
We traveled through the night
02:29
to this beautiful reserve.
02:31
He was very scared at first because it's a completely new environment for him,
02:35
but he soon very quickly settled in.
02:41
It took just a few hours for him to realize that he was in ant and termite heaven.
02:48
You can only compare it to sending your kids off to school.
02:52
It's an incredibly bittersweet moment to see them go through that.
02:56
It's an incredibly bittersweet moment to see them go off.
03:02
He just knew what to do.
03:05
It was an incredibly rewarding thing to see him develop into the antis he is now.
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