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Pilosa
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An order of mammals confined to the Americas, including the anteaters, entirely toothless and specialized for a diet of ants and termites extracted with a long, sticky tongue, and the sloths, among the slowest-moving mammals known, spending nearly their entire lives hanging in trees.
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