myrmecophagous การใช้

• Species are mainly myrmecophagous ants which raid the nests of other ants for prey.
• This feature also supports the idea that they were myrmecophagous, as modern mammals employ this technique to break into termite mounds.
• Many myrmecophagous mammals, such as the aardwolf, anteaters and pangolin, have either no teeth, or, in cases like the aardwolf, have large diastemata between their sparse teeth.
• Such myrmecophagous species, however, will not necessarily refuse other prey items, and will routinely catch flies and similar prey in the usual salticid fashion, without the special precautions they apply in hunting dangerous prey such as ants.