#Actually tho idk why anteaters make me nauseous to look at. I cant i feel like im gonna barf lmfao

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So i tried to look up a hairless anteater or a shaved anteater because i figured they were mostly fluff and the whole ants only diet thing would make more sense to see their bodies without it. I tried looking up shaved anteater, hairless anteater, and anteater alopecia and yeilded pretty much nothing. Idk why no one shaves their anteaters these days sheeeeeesh. But i found this guy

Hes givin a high five! Wow! What a weird cool guy his face makes me nauseous!

And it gets even better!

Now hes swaggy! Hes got the black tee! Raise the roof! Woop woop!

I just can't suspend my disbelief about anteaters. It doesn't make any sense that a mammal that huge can keep its body sustained eating just ants and termites. "Oh but they raid hundreds of nests per day and eat thousands and thousands of them!" Dude, I feel like even you must know you're reaching here. Come on.

It's a shame, because the idea is genuinely really cool, a big fluffy guy whose main deal is slurping up insects with its crazy tongue, what's not to love. But they went too far and felt the need to make that gimmick its ENTIRE food supply, and then it just... doesn't work! Nobody would be complaining if it ALSO ate some berries or something every once in a while! Your worldbuilding is allowed to have some nuance!

And I guess they tried to address this when they made the aardvark by introducing the aardvark cucumber, which is a special melon-looking fruit that only aardvarks care about and which supplements their mostly insect-based diet. Which... okay to be honest I think that's a really ham-fisted and dumb solution, but at least it's something.