Noun:

ପାଙ୍ଗୋଲିନ୍ |,

pangolin's Usage Examples:

The material used to make the scales varied and included bronze, iron, steel, rawhide, leather, cuir bouilli, seeds, horn, or pangolin scales.

Ferae includes the closest extant relative of carnivorans, the pangolins, as well as several extinct groups.

Mammals living in the park include the endangered Sunda pangolin.

white-bellied pangolin or three-cusped pangolin, it is the most common of the African forest pangolins.

ReproductionFew details are known about the breeding behaviour of the Indian pangolin.

Smutsia is a genus of African pangolins, better known as the African ground pangolins, from subfamily Smutsiinae, within family Manidae.

alongside the pangolins and aardvarks in the order Edentata (meaning toothless, because the members do not have incisors and lack, or have poorly developed.

Distribution and habitatThe Indian pangolin has been recorded in various forest types, including Sri Lankan rainforest and plains to middle hill levels.

name "anteater" is also colloquially applied to the unrelated aardvark, numbat, echidnas, pangolins, and some members of the Oecobiidae.

When the mother and young are disturbed, the young pangolin is held against its mother's belly and protected by the mother's tail.

However, it is not uncommon for the pangolin to shift back to an old burrow.

ThreatsThe Indian pangolin is threatened by poaching for its meat and scales, which are used and consumed by local people, but are also increasingly traded internationally.

Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body which act as armour.

Synonyms:

placental, eutherian, placental mammal, scaly anteater, eutherian mammal, genus Manis, anteater, Manis,

Antonyms:

aplacental, digitigrade mammal, plantigrade mammal,