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Aardvark Trunks

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Anteaters and aardvarks are somewhat common in fiction while other ant-eating mammals such as echidnas and pangolins are more rarely seen. Due to their large, vacuum-shaped snouts resembling the trunk of an elephant, their snouts are often depicted as much more flexible than they are in Real Life. Real snouts are bony, unlike the boneless, muscle-filled trunk of an elephant, and thus cannot be flexed around like an elephant's trunk.note Ironically in the case of aardvarks, they actually are related to elephants, both being in the clade Afrotheria. To these ends the tip of the aardvark snout is muscular and can move, but nowhere near to the trunk-like extent frequently seen in fictitious media.
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The Casagrandes: In "How To Train Your Carl", an anteater at the zoo is shown with a flexible trunk, sucking up ants and making the same trumpeting noise as the elephant it speaks with.
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Adventure Time: The episode "Beyond The Grotto" introduces the alternate selves of several characters. The alternate of Tree Trunks the elephant? Bush Roots the anteater, who looks pretty much like an elephant with smaller ears and a bushy tail.
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Almost Naked Animals: Anteater has his mouth at the base of his snout rather than the tip. His snout, however, is usually straight, though he sometimes uses it like a trunk.
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George of the Jungle (2007): In the episode "L'il Orphan Anteater'', George adopts a baby anteater with an expressive trunk that Shep the elephant grows jealous over.
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Kung Fu Panda:
The Dragon Knight: Queen Zuma's giant anteater guards have snouts that wiggle slightly.
Legends of Awesomeness: Sanzu, a villainous pangolin who appears in "Po Picks a Pocket", has a snout tipped with a bulbous dark nose and his mouth at the base, making him resemble a dog.
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In Serina the noot alludes to this trope, being an anteater-like animal which a movable, trunk-like snout. This is because it is actually a member of a highly aberrant canary lineage that developed facial tentacles, so the snout is pretty much all muscle.
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Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course: A massive anteater is one of the opponents faced in the level "Bootlegger Boogie". His mouth is placed at the base of the snout rather than at the tip, making the snout a trunk of sorts. Despite this, the tip of the snout still has a tongue come out of it, making him essentially have two mouths. As if that wasn't weird enough, in the anteater's game over quote, he still refers to his trunk as a "nose." This is also true of the villainous anteater in "Ants in the Plants" (see the Western Animation section), which the anteater's design seems to have been based on.
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The Tom and Jerry Show (1975): In the episode "Termites Plus Two", the titular duo brings in an anteater as one of the ways to dispose of a termite colony. As the anteater sucks up the insects, its snout becomes bloated. Its mouth also briefly moves to the underside of its snout when Tom helps it hold in a sneeze, caused by a feather that the termites were carrying in order to escape.
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Princess Tutu: Anteaterina's snout is rather expressive, changing position from being straight from her face to rather droopy.
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Yin Yang Yo!: The Stink Aardvarks are very elephant-like in appearance, thanks to their flexible trunks.
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Bubble Guppies: The anteater from the episode "Bring on the Bugs" has his mouth in the correct place, but also displays a flexible snout.
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Boner's Ark: Arnie has a mouth behind his pig-like nose.
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Cyril and Cedric Sneer, and Sophia Tutu in The Raccoons are pink aardvarks whose trunks act like noses, with their mouths at the base of their trunks.
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Sonic Boom: Similar to Knuckles, Diane Aardvark is also drawn with a dog's snout rather than that of her own species.
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The Ant and the Aardvark: The titular Aardvark looks more like an anteater with his mouth at the end of his snout, and even then, it's super flexible and he usually tries to eat Ant by sucking him rather than slurping him up. More prominent in Pink Panther and Pals, where the Aardvark's snout is curved upwards like an elephant trunk.
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The Koala Brothers: Sammy the echidna has a wide smiling mouth below his beak, making it more like a nose.
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Color Classics: The anteater in "Ants in the Plants" has a trunk that looks and functions very much like an elephant's, and it is even able to stretch and bend through the ant tunnels.
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Cerebus the Aardvark: When the comic started, Cerebus had a long snout with a somewhat pig-like nose that was the same width as his snout. As the comic progressed and Sim's art improved, his snout shortened and the nose broadened, becoming more round and completely obscuring his snout if seen from the front. He also has two mouths, one on each side of his head just behind his snout. Cirin and Suenteus Po, the two other aardvarks that appear in the story, have similar mouth/snout arrangements but their snouts are more tapered and their noses aren't as wide as Cerebus' is.
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Harvey Beaks: The episode "The Almighty Foo" introduces Easy, an anteater exterminator with his mouth at the base of his snout.
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Ice Age: There is a creature that is identified as an aardvark, but though it has the ears of an aardvark, it has the bushy tail and coloration of a giant anteater, and its snout is weirdly elongated to be reminiscent of an anteater (not an aardvark), but that animal would have a tiny mouth at the tip of its snout, whereas the cartoon critter has its mouth at the base.
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The Dragon Knight: Queen Zuma's giant anteater guards have snouts that wiggle slightly.
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Legends of Awesomeness: Sanzu, a villainous pangolin who appears in "Po Picks a Pocket", has a snout tipped with a bulbous dark nose and his mouth at the base, making him resemble a dog.
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In the first Arthur book, Arthur the aardvark had a long nose but he looked more like a brown tapir (or a giant anteater, without the stripes or the plumes of hair on the tail) than an aardvark, with a medium-sized pig-like snout pointing downward. In the second book, he had a long face with his mouth at the end of it (but not an accurate snout). In following books, his nose was gradually shortened until in his later design (and in the animated series) Arthur and his family had absolutely no snouts at all, making them not even look like aardvarks. Awkwardly, said first book was entitled Arthur's Nose, in which Arthur faces bullying for his long nose and learns to accept himself as he is, making for a rather Broken Aesop.
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Knuckles the echidna appears to be a strange inversion of this trope. Rather than having the beak his species is known for, he instead has a pointed snout with a black nose and a mouth with sharp teeth underneath, resembling a dog more than an echidna.
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The anteater from the Timon & Pumbaa episode "Paraguay Parable" was prone to this, having a flexible trunk with his lips at the end.
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The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!: One episode has a giant anteater with his mouth at the base of his snout.
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Tiny Toon Adventures has a couple of Inverted examples.
From the episode "Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?", Sappy Stanley, an elephant, has his mouth drawn at the tip of his trunk rather than the base, making him resemble an aardvark or anteater.
A Perfecto Prep elephant from the episode "The ACME Bowl" also has his mouth at the tip of his trunk.
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Animal Crossing: The snouts of all anteater villagers wiggle when they talk.
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Over the Moon: Gobi the pangolin looks more like a bear at first glance due to how wide his nose and mouth are drawn.
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It's a Big Big World: Bob is a tamandua (an arboreal species of anteater) whose mouth is at the base of his snout.
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Anteaters in B.C. appear to have two mouths, with one realistically at the tip of the snout (where the tongue is shot from) and another at the base.
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Trunk Train has Duda, who is yet another anteater with a misplaced mouth.
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South Park: The pangolin in "The Pandemic Special" has a short, wide snout, rather than a slightly longer, skinnier snout.
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Happy Tree Friends: Sniffles the anteater has a very expressive mouth at the tip of his trunk. Additionally, his trunk was originally very long and droopy but later shortened, though is still somewhat flexible. A few episodes have even shown that his trunk is hollow and he has another pair of jaws at the base of his skull, pushing this trope even further.
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Doki: Oto is a lesser anteater with the accurate body markings of one, although he has yellow fur and, of course, a mouth at the base of his snout.
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Charlie the Anteater in Rio 2 seems to have more of a flexible tongue. He is correctly portrayed as having a long tongue just like real anteaters. However, there is still some Artistic License – Biology involved, as he is portrayed as having an Overly-Long Tongue that is sometimes shown stretching to his feet. He also suffers a lot of Tongue Trauma throughout the movie by Nigel.
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Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea: Bic and Bac, both pangolins, have mouths underneath their snouts that look like noses. They also have no scales or claws, unlike real-life pangolins.
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Rampage: Total Destruction: Icky is a giant echidna. However, his snout looks more like a pig's than an echidna's.
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