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South American Anteaters Have No Teeth and a Long Sticky

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South American anteaters have no teeth and a long sticky tongue; they rip open anthills and termite mounds and capture insects with their tongues.An Australian marsupial known as the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus)is not closely related to anteaters,but it too has highly reduced teeth and a long sticky tongue,and it feeds by ripping open termite burrows and lapping the insects up.Such similarities between species that are not inherited from a common ancestor are known as ________.

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