Due to unforeseen circumstances, today's Baby Shark Mini Show performances will be rescheduled for a later date. Learn more.
The Detroit Zoo will be closed Thursday, June 18 to prepare for our Sunset at the Zoo celebration.
Giant Anteater
(Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
With no teeth to help them chew their food, anteaters use their two-foot-long tongues to collect ants. You can see Bissell and Mojo, the anteaters who call the Zoo home, along with their shaggy hair and claws, closer than ever before inside Fred and Barbara Erb Discovery Trails.