Giant Anteater Baby / Atris Zoo

Late Friday night, Amsterdam’s Atris Zoo welcomed its third baby Giant Anteater. The delivery took a little over an hour, after which the baby climbed on the back of its mother, where it will spend the better part of its first year of anteater life. The young are almost invisible to predators on their mothers’ backs, as the stripes of mother and baby naturally blend together.

Giant Anteaters have a remarkably long snout, a 60 inch tongue and long claws on the forelegs. The gestation period of the great anteater is about six months — via ZooBorns