A female anteater (Tamandua Mirim) carries her baby at the zoo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. n the heart of the historical Sao Cristovao neighborhood, close to Rio's open-air football stadium of Maracan, the zoo is home to over 500 mammals, 900 reptiles and 1,000 birds representing 400 species from the Brazilian ecosystem.
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