| The skull of pangolins is smoothly conical, lacking the ridges and crests found on most mammalian crania. |
| In performance, the generic figures appear in groups to represent mainly dogs, pangolins, and antelopes. |
| Young pangolins are soft-scaled at birth and are carried on the female's back for some time. |
| In the echidna, anteaters, and pangolins, there are qualitative differences in tongue construction. |
| In contrast with the Xenarthra, the Old World Pholidota is not trophically diverse and contains only the myrmecophagous pangolins, or scaly anteaters. |
| Like pangolins, aardvarks have a long, protrusile tongue and a gizzard-like stomach. |
