Amazing Facts about Pangolin

A pangolin is a species of animal that resembles the anteater and the armadillo. Pangolins live in southeastern Asia, Indonesia and parts of Africa south of the Sahara. Like anteaters, pangolins are toothless and have long, narrow snouts, long tails and sticky, rope-like tongues that they can thrust far out to catch the ants on which they feed. Pangolins have coats of mail for formed by the overlapping horny scales, instead of the coarse hair of anteaters. These scales are various shades of brown.

Pangolins vary in length from 0.9 to 1.5m, depending on the species. All pangolins have large, strong claws on their forefeet, which they use to rip open the nests of ants and termites. Pangolins can roll themselves into tight balls so heavily armoured that few enemies can harm them.

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