armadillo vs pangolin
Definitions
noun
- burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates
Examples
This procedure confers on the armadillo enough additional buoyancy to enable it to float.
To the insatiable bloody appetite of this creature nothing comes amiss; he takes the male ostrich by surprise, and slays that wariest of wild things on his nest; He captures little birds with the dexterity of a cat, and hunts for diurnal armadillos; he comes unawares upon the deer and huanaco, and, springing like lightning on them, dislocates their necks before their bodies touch the earth.
They behave to one another as they do to a foreign armadillo, in spite of their genetic similarity.
Definitions
noun
- toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
Examples
Pangolins, also known as 'scaly anteaters,' are a creature few have even heard of, and now that they are being hunted toward extinction, the fascinating creatures face being forgotten forever.
The skull of pangolins is smoothly conical, lacking the ridges and crests found on most mammalian crania.
Even if pangolins are the sister group of carnivores, aardwolves are well nested within Carnivora in the family Hyaenidae.
