Please Look At The Nashville Zoo's New Baby Anteater

NASHVILLE, TN — For the first time since 2011, a baby giant anteater was born at the Nashville Zoo and her name is Isabel and she is very great.

Isabel's mom's name is Praim and Isabel weighed 1.4 kilograms and was 67 centimeters long when she was born October 22. That is 3 pounds and 26 inches in the Imperial system and can also be expressed as "Ohmigod she's so tiny and snuggly and please be my best friend, Isabel."

Here are more pictures of Isabel, who in addition to being very cute and sweet would also be a great addition to a picnic or cook-out, because when she gets bigger, she will still be very nice and will eat 30,000 ants or termite every day.

For now though, Isabel will live in the most adorable place possible: baby giant anteaters crawl on their mother's back and stay there for a year. Praim is so lucky.

Check Out Isabel, Nashville Zoo's Newest Baby Giant Anteater

The Nashville Zoo is — seriously — the leading American zoo for anteater breeding. Isabel is the 16th giant anteater pup born at the zoo since 2001, each one as weirdly stinking cute as the last. Fun fact: anteaters don't really show any obvious physical signs of pregnancy (probably because they want to horde all that cuteness), so the Nashville Zoo has developed ultrasound techniques to help other zoos learn if they also have little pups on the way and keepers and vets at the zoo are literally writing the book on anteater husbandry and neo-natal care. Check out a video of Praim's ultrasound.

The zoo is also the home to the largest captive population of anteaters in the country.

Nashville Zoo’s giant anteater collection resides off-exhibit in a barn located behind the Historic Home, but because the zoo is wonderful they send out pictures of the new babies.

All photos via Nashville Zoo, by Margarita Woc Colburn, DVM