The soft stomach is one reason a pangolin has hard scales covering its body. |
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They are home to many smaller wildlife like jackals, hares, snakes, wild boar, pangolin and countless species of birds. |
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So I didn't get to see the umpteen varieties of lizards, snakes, flying lemur or pangolin, which are reputed to haunt the forests. |
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Analysis of these fossils showed the ancient creature to be a small mammal, possibly distantly related to the modern scaly anteater known as the pangolin. |
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The tail vertebrae vary in number from none in the bat to 49 in the pangolin. |
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The southern plains are home to mongooses, civets, hares, the Asiatic jackal, the Indian pangolin, the jungle cat, and the desert cat. |
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Just this week it emerged that a Chinese vessel that ran aground in a protected coral atoll in the Philippines on April 8th was carrying 400 boxes ten tonnes of meat from the pangolin, the endangered scaly anteater. |
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All pangolin species have been hunted for their meat, and the organs, skin, scales, and other parts of the body are valued for their use in traditional medicine. |
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Anyone who captures a pangolin is encouraged to alert game wardens, who take the pangolin and its discoverer to the local governors or chiefs. |
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Or is modern Man beyond redemption when it comes to the pangolin and the slow loris? |
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Then there's the solenodon, an ancient mammal, the Sunda pangolin, which has armour made of keratin, and Priam's birdwing butterfly, the largest on earth. |
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After helping Monkey, Pangolin, Ostrich, and more, rainbow Guion goes to sleep under a black and white star-studded sky, hoping that things would improve by morning. |
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