Watch sleepy anteater act like ‘teenager’ as zookeepers try to wake him. ‘You are 22’

Eury the giant anteater is 22 years old, but he acts like a “teenager” when zookeepers try to wake him up in the morning.

“Good morning,” a zookeeper says sweetly as she pets and rubs the animal in an attempt to coax him awake.

Eury is not having it.

For the first few seconds of a TikTok video posted on the Greensboro Science Center’s account on April 18, Eury completely ignores the zookeeper and tucks his head and long snout under his paw as she rubs his ear.

“Everything. They’re everything,” she says before asking, “You wanna wake up?” and offering him some pasty-looking food in a metal dish.

The anteater briefly licks the food with his snake-like tongue before curling back up and dozing off again — this time laying his large, fluffy paw over his left ear.

“He is a teenager,” the zookeeper says before trying to lure him off his bed of straw again.

“You’re 22 now. You’re past this phase. You’re not a teenager anymore.”

But her words are ineffective.

The next shot shows Eury curled up into a tight ball and almost completely covered by his huge, bushy tail.

Finally, toward the end of the video, Eury appears as if he’s almost ready to wake up and stretches his snout back toward the zookeeper. But then, just before the camera cuts, he starts to tuck his head right back toward his paws again.

Even though Eury is acting like a “teenager” in the video, in anteater years, he’s actually a very old man, according to the science center. In the wild, giant anteaters, which are found throughout most of Central and South America, live to be 10-15 years old.

In addition to living well past his species’ normal lifespan, Eury has chronic arthritis in one knee due to putting excess weight on it because of an old hip injury, according to the science center. Keepers do their best to keep his enclosure comfortable and have him on a steady routine of medication, including cannabis-oil treats.

While his wake-up video has more than 16 million views on TikTok, being sleepy isn’t the only thing Eury is famous for. Videos of him walking around his enclosure, sunbathing, eating and sniffling for the camera with this exceptionally long nose are also popular with viewers.

“Can we PLEASE have a video full of anteater sniffs?” one user commented.

“It looks like an alien tried to draw a horse (in the best way),” wrote another.

“I cannot imagine living with my mouth being 3 ft from my face,” a third commented.

Giant anteater’s tongues are actually 2 feet long, and they have a highly developed sense of smell that allows them to identify particular species of ants and termites before devouring them, according to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

The Greensboro Science Museum is a nonprofit zoo, museum and aquarium in Greensboro, about 80 miles northwest of Raleigh.

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