Northern Tamandua (Tamandua mexicana)

Northern Tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) - walking on the Pipeline Road, Gamboa

The Northern Tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) is a species of tamandua, an anteater. They live in tropical and subtropical forests from southern Mexico, through Central America, and to the edge of the northern Andes.
  
The northern tamandua is a medium-sized anteater with a prehensile tail, small eyes and ears, and a long snout. The fur is pale yellow over most of the body, with a distinctive patch of black fur over the flanks, back, and shoulders, that somewhat resembles a vest in shape. The tail is mostly hairless but has fur on its upper surface.

Northern Tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) eating termites (Nasutitermes sp.)

Northern tamanduas subsist almost entirely on diets of ants and termites, although they have also been observed to eat small quantities of fruit. They prefer insects, over 4 mm (0.16 in) in length, including Camponotus, Azteca, Crematogaster, and Nasutitermes, among others. They extract the ants with their long, narrow, sticky tongues, but seem to do little permanent damage to the nests, perhaps because they do not spend long at each one before being driven away by the insects' natural defenses. They are solitary animals and known predators include jaguars and harpy eagles.