Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758

VOSS, ROBERT S., LUNDE, DARRIN P. & SIMMONS, NANCY B., 2001, The Mammals Of Paracou, French Guiana: A Neotropical Lowland Rainforest Fauna Part 2. Nonvolant Species, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (263), pp. 1-236 : 66

Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus

Four sightings of giant anteaters by local forestry workers were reported to us (P. Petronelli, personal commun., 1993). One animal was seen in savanna vegetation, the oth­ er three in the forest; all were seen in the daytime. Covering about ten years of human residence at Paracou, these scant observations suggest that this large and conspicuous diurnal species is very uncommon.