Of course, this documentary, like many of its kind, was vigorously preaching the concepts of evolution, even going so far as to say that the Brazilian anteater "co-evolved" with the termites it eats.
The anteater's jaw is fused. It cannot properly chew. Its jaw is so long that it acts more like a suction tube. If it doesn't suck down 30,000 termites a day, it will die of starvation. The narrator in the documentary explained with great confidence that this creature's ant-eating mechanism evolved over "millions of years" to aid it in eating termites.
My question is this - during the first part of those millions of years, while the mouth and jaw were not yet fully "evolved", how the hell did it eat anything? Did the termites just run up and climb into its mouth out of compassion for its sorry, underdeveloped snout? Did the anteater's ancestors sit around thinking - "Let's not eat worms or mice or anything else. Let's let our jaws fuse together so that we can't chew anything. Let's patiently wait a couple more million years until our snouts are useless for anything other than suctioning out termites, then we will be able to finally eat."?
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