{"id":548,"date":"2013-03-13T21:37:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T01:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=548"},"modified":"2013-03-13T21:40:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T01:40:55","slug":"hungry-northern-tamandua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Northern Tamandua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=549#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-549\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-549\" alt=\"Northern Tamandua\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tamandua-2-1024x636.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tamandua-2-1024x636.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tamandua-2-300x186.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tamandua-2-260x160.jpg 260w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tamandua-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the prowl in search of ants and termites, a furry Northern Tamandua <em>(Tamandua mexicana)<\/em> uses its long snout to explore what appears to be the dried husk of a large coconut (below). These photographs of the anteater were taken on a hike from Serena to Carate in 2010, not far from the beach that lines the Pacific shore of the Corcovado National Park. Northern Tamanduas consume an average of 9,000 insects each day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?attachment_id=550#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-550\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-550\" alt=\"Northern Tamandua Eating Insects\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tamandua-eats-ants-1024x774.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tamandua-eats-ants-1024x774.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tamandua-eats-ants-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tamandua-eats-ants.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>All media is copyright costaricawildlife.net, 2013.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the prowl in search of ants and termites, a furry Northern Tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) uses its long snout to explore what appears to be the dried husk of a large coconut (below). These photographs of the anteater were taken on a hike from Serena to Carate in 2010, not far from the beach that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/?p=548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,11,13,10,5,26],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anteaters","tag-black","tag-brown","tag-mammals","tag-osa-peninsula","tag-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.costaricawildlife.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}