Pangolin
What is a Pangolin?
The pangolin is a strange animal that boards the tropical forests of Africa and Asia. Shaped like an equipped anteater, to which they are not close associated, pangolins are also sometimes called scaly anteaters. An adult pangolin can use both its claws and sharp scales on its tail as weapons to slash at attackers. They use their superior sense of smell to locate anthills and termite piles in the darkness. They then use their sharp attacks to burrow deep into these piles, where they shove their long, sticky tongues in to snatch up hundreds or thousands of the insects.
The pangolin is also a good athlete, which helps lower its chances of being eaten by large creatures on the ground, such as tigers. It also digs burrows within insect mounds that it has previously evacuated, where it can also raise young. Four species are found in Asia, including the Indian Pangolin, the Sunda Pangolin, the Philippine Pangolin, and the Chinese Pangolin; and four species are found in Africa, the Long-tailed Pangolin, Ground Pangolin, Tree Pangolin, and Giant Pangolin.
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