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(FILES) - File picture taken July 30, 2008 shows an aid stroking eight-year-old giant anteater, Juanita, a few days after its arrival at the Sables-d'Olonne's zoo, western France. Anteaters feed solely on insects and eat up to 30,000 ants and termites per day and are not agressive to humans. It was reported by the Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Journal earlier in July 2014 that a man died in a defensive attack by a giant anteater (Myrmecophagatrydactila) in northern Brazil in August 2012 while hunting. The man, who had puncture wounds and severe bleeding, died of exsanguination at the scene. The other case involved a 75-year-old man who died in 2010 when an anteater used its long front claws -- which typically help it dig into anthills -- to puncture his femoral arteries, located in the groin and thigh. The Journal reports that injuries caused by anteaters in humans are rare and occur in those who provoke or try to hunt the animals and in professionals who handle them for scientific proposes. AFP PHOTO FRANK PERRY
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Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée, FRANCE |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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FRANK PERRY |
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26 Iulie 2014 |
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4256 x 2832 (1.01 MB) |
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