You know the animals Pangolin? Yes maybe the animal is a little strange to hear, but there are also some people who have know about the life of the animal. Pangolin is one animal that is categorized as a unique animal because it has a characteristic that is different from other animals in general.
Actually, these animals are mammals of the family Manidae which are only a few or only some of which can be found in Indonesia. This is what makes animals Pangolin well as rare animals.
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Actually, in the animal world itself is composed of eight pangolin species widely spread in Africa and Asia. Only the number of animals is not too much because the pattern of the breed are few and too many threats from outside that of humans.
Many animals Pangolin are hunted illegally for later resale to other countries as home decoration or other purposes. This makes the presence of these animals are threatened by extinction. Pangolin animals can be sold traded with a fairly even so high that many people are happy hunting.
The reason people want to get these animals because Pangolin has some unique facts of his life. Here the unique facts of the pangolin.
Tringgiling has a body size medium to large depending on how long the life of these animals survive. Almost like an animal porcupine, pangolin also have skin prickly however, only the measure is just different.
If animals hedgehogs have small size and sharp spines on different skin with Pangolin the size of spines on the skin that is greater and also not terlau sharp that people more often call like scaly. Pangolin scales on the skin of the animals closer together with each other so as to cover the entire section body. Weight pangolin scales capable of achieving up to 20% of their total body weight so that the animal is classified as a powerful animal.
In addition to the skin, other unique animals Pangolin is the shape and size of its tongue. Pangolin tongue has a size longer than the pangolin agency. because tongue this long, making pangolin is able to reach his food until at long distances even he can eat ants from the nest hole.
Every day, anteaters eat ants capable of up to 70 million ants. Pangolin actually have no teeth. Their meals using the gravel and thorns keratin to smooth the food that is in the stomach.
When the breed and give birth to a child, the mother anteater will take care to avoid enemies or other animals that prey on these children.
Pangolin baby will be taken by its parent put it on their backs. Besides it being the most distinctive characteristics of this scaly animals is their ability to fold themselves like roll to form a ball. It is they do when their lives are threatened by enemy or predators.
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