About Pangolin

 About Pangolin 

People celebrate February 18th as Pangolin Day. It is because these animals are dying easily.

• Pangolins are mammals.
• They are hard shelled, hunted in endangered mammals often called the scaly anteater.
• Mostly Pangolins found in across Asia and South of the Sahara Desert in Africa, they weigh as much as 11.6 kgs to 33 kgs. 
• They may be yellowish brown, to dark olive and brown . 

           

Pangolins 

• Suprisingly their underbellies are coated with a thick fur instead of scale. 
• Pangolins are nocturnal animals which means they a awake and bury during the night and are solitary. 
• Pangolins are belong to the same family as dogs, cats and bears though they look like armadillos, sloths or anteaters. 
• A Pangolins scaly exterior covering head to foot is built like a coat of armour. 

                       

Pangolin

• Pangolin live in burrows that are big enough for a person to climb into and stand up in. 
• A Pangolin's tongue is and at times is longer than its whole body. It is covered with a sticky slime which it uses to catch ants or termites. 
• Pangolins do not have teeth, have a poor eyesight and a good sense smell .