Thanks to MontanaLady, it now makes more sense. My initial reaction was that “chitin” was slang for cheating.
Now I know it’s either a horny polysaccharide that forms part of the hard outer integument especially of insects, arachnids, and crustaceans or a tough, protective, semitransparent substance, primarily a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, forming the principal component of arthropod exoskeletons and the cell walls of certain fungi.
Either way, I’m guessing the anteater spits out the hard chitin and sucks up the juicy inner body of the ant.
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