Nicknamed antbear for its appetite for ants and termites, the aardvark can consume as many as 50,000 insects in a night. 30cm long and covered in sticky saliva, its ribbon-like tongue is used to reach into the winding tunnels of termite mounds and ant nests.
As for insects that it can't reach even with its tongue, it pushes its snout against the hole in the mound, using it like a vacuum cleaner to suck insects nearer before slurping them up.