Happy Tamandua Day to Chuck! 🐜 One of Chuck's favorite treats is his insectivore diet, which is a large part of the food he enjoys daily at the Zoo. Like the name sounds, the Insectivore diet is formulated to mimic the proteins, fibers, and nutrients found in insects that bug-loving animals like Chuck enjoy! | Elmwood Park Zoo

Credit goes to the book “The rehabilitation and captive care of insectivore bats “. I Want to give credit to the right folks ❤️ this boon us my bat care bible Just one of the Mexican Free Tailed bat pups. We feed them their formula through a sponge tip of an eye shadow applicator. I Soak the sponge in the formula, squeeze excess out, and let them start nursing. As they continue to nurse I add drops of formula to the sponge. Very time consuming feeding 10 bat pups | Little Bit Wildlife Rescue

Happy World Anteater Day from Miguel and Maya! These interesting looking animals have powerful claws, a flat bushy tail, coarse fur and a long snout with a tongue that can reach up to 2 feet in length! That tongue comes in handy when hunting their preferred prey of ants and termites, of which they can eat up to 30,000 per day! 🐜 Here at Wildlife World, they eat a specially formulated insectivore diet that mimics their natural food, supplemented with other items like fruits, eggs You can see the

Armored Insectivore? This bronzed #Desmatosuchus, the “link crocodile,” is on display at the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum in Tucumcari, New Mexico. It is a kind of #aetosaur, “eagle lizard,” which were armored herbivores prevalent in the Chinle Formation of Arizona in the Late Triassic, from roughly 230 mya to 210 mya or so, at which point they go extinct :-(. Aetosaurs lived in New Mexico, Texas, and other locales around the world, but Desmatosuchus is out of the southwestern USA. Desmatosuchus re