Insectivores are carnivorous mammals that survive by eating almost nothing but small insects. Insectivores include bats, frogs, lizards and anteaters.
Desman, an aquatic, insect-eating mammal. Desmans are from 9 to 17 inches (23 to 43 cm) long, including a 5- to 8-inch (13- to 20--cm) tail. See more »
Remember practicing the stop, drop and roll drill in school? If you were an armadillo, rolling up into a tight little ball would be second nature. But how do these armored creatures tuck every last square inch of themselves into a sphere? And why?
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If your home has termites and the exterminator is booked, you might want to send in an anteater or aardvark. Though both these animals love insects, they're two totally different species.
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Ever since word spread about the seven deadly sins, sloths have been getting a bad rap. These sluggish tree-dwellers conserve energy by stopping to smell (and eat) the roses.
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Aardvark, an African mammal. The name means "earth pig" in Afrikaans and refers to its resemblance to a pig and to its habit of digging.
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Anteater, any of several species of toothless animals that feed chiefly on ants and termites.
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Armadillo, a small mammal, related to the anteater and sloth, that is protected by armorlike bony plates.
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Echidna, or Spiny Anteater, an egg-laying mammal closely related to the duckbill platypus.
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Elephant Shrew, a family of small mammals found in Africa. The family is made up of four genera and about 15 species.
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Hedgehog, or Urchin, a small insect-eating mammal related to the mole and shrew. Of the 15 species of hedgehogs, most are found in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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Sloth, an extremely slow-moving mammal native to the forests of Central and South America.
See more »Desman, an aquatic, insect-eating mammal. Desmans are from 9 to 17 inches (23 to 43 cm) long, including a 5- to 8-inch (13- to 20--cm) tail.
See more »Edentata, the former name of an order of mammals that includes anteaters, armadillos, and sloths.
See more »Ground Sloth, an extinct American sloth related to the anteater and tree sloth of today.
See more »Mole, a small insect-eating mammal related to the shrew. It lives in underground burrows and is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
See more »Pangolin, or Scaly Anteater, a mammal native to southern Asia and Africa. The top of the pangolin's head and its back, tail, and legs are covered with horny, sharp-edged, overlapping scales.
See more »Shrew, a small predatory mammal of the family Soricidae. There are about 250 species.
See more »Solenodon, a mammal that somewhat resembles a shrew. There are only two species - one found in Cuba, the other on Hispaniola.
See more »Tenrec, a mammal found on Madagascar and nearby islands. There are about 20 species, including the common tenrec, the streaked tenrec, and various species of rice tenrecs and long-tailed tenrecs.
See more »Tree Shrew, or Tupaya, a family of tree-dwelling, squirrel-shaped mammals found in India and the mainland and islands of southeast Asia.
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