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Pangolin (pronounced pang GOH lin) is a strange animal inhabiting
the warm parts of Asia and Africa.
Pangolin is perhaps better known as “scaly ant-eaters,” for they
are just that. Its body is covered with sharp, horny scales that give
the animal the appearance of a large pine cone.
The pangolin wanders about at night in search of anthills and
termite nests, which it rips open with its strong, sharp claws.
Then it pushes out its sticky, wormlike tongue which may be a foot
long. It licks up the ants
if uncovers and slurps the ants into its toothless mouth. It may eat many thousands of ants at
one meal.
When danger threatens the pangolin rolls itself up into a tight
ball so heavily armored that few enemies can harm it. When rolled up, the pangolin is almost impossible to straighten
out. Pangolins may grow to
be from 3 to 5 feet long. - Dick Rogers
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