How To Use Pangolin In A Sentence
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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.
'Scaly Anteater,' Pangolin, Being Hunted To Extinction In Asia (VIDEO)
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The skull of pangolins is smoothly conical, lacking the ridges and crests found on most mammalian crania.
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Even if pangolins are the sister group of carnivores, aardwolves are well nested within Carnivora in the family Hyaenidae.
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He's been in remote jungles and seen animals named the bongo and the armor-plated pangolin... `What do you ask someone who's done all this?
FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
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Anteaters, pangolins, and some armadillos use hook-and-pull digging with the enlarged claw of a single, enlarged manual digit to open termite or ant nests made of hard dirt.
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Some mammals, like tree pangolins and tamanduas eat arboreal ants and termites.
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In the last few years, 55, 000 reptile skins from India, 19, 000 big-eye thresher shark fins in Ecuador and 23 metric tonnes of pangolin in Asia have all been seized.
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Beneath, pangolins lack scales but have a sparse coat of fur.
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The Palawan binturong is hunted for meat and as pets, and the pangolin is hunted for its hide.
Palawan rain forests
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The soft stomach is one reason a pangolin has hard scales covering its body.
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In the Old World they have a counterpart in the form of the strange, scaly anteaters, the pangolins.
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The edentates, including the sloths, ant-eaters and armadillos, were originally part of a larger group which included aardvarks and pangolins - all had unique extra movable parts between vertebrae in the lower back.
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In performance, the generic figures appear in groups to represent mainly dogs, pangolins, and antelopes.
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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 ...
'Scaly Anteater,' Pangolin, Being Hunted To Extinction In Asia (VIDEO)
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I immediately thought of pangolins on reading the news about the Tube-lipped nectar bat Anoura fistulata: the pangolin tongue 'roots' on the xiphisternum, a rod-like cartilaginous extension of the breastbone located on the ventral surface of the abdomen.
Andean Bats
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Anteaters, pangolins, and some armadillos use hook-and-pull digging with the enlarged claw of a single, enlarged manual digit to open termite or ant nests made of hard dirt.
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Alternatively they may climb trees in search of tree ants, as do the pangolins or scaly anteaters of the genus Manis.
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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 ...
'Scaly Anteater,' Pangolin, Being Hunted To Extinction In Asia (VIDEO)
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African tree pangolin has white skin and hair, lacking external ear and scaly tail.
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In contrast with the Xenarthra, the Old World Pholidota is not trophically diverse and contains only the myrmecophagous pangolins, or scaly anteaters.
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In the echidna, anteaters, and pangolins, there are qualitative differences in tongue construction.
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Other species include the endemic water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquaticus, African golden cat Felis aurata (K), giant forest genet Genetta victoriae, the endemic aquatic genet Osbornictis piscivora, leopard Panthera pardus, giant ground pangolin Manis gigantea, aardvark orycteropus afer, pygmy antelope Neotragus batesii, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, bush pig Potamochoerus porcus and giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni (V) and great cane rat Thryonomys swinderianus.
Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo
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China is now the primary market for tiger bone, rhino horn, elephant ivory, live snakes, pangolins and a whole host of wildlife products.
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II animals: monkey, pangolin, giant squirrel, otters, large Viverra, sambar, birds of prey, silver pheasant, peacock pythonsteindachneri, python s, etc. 12.
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Interpreting the extreme similarity in anteaters and pangolins remains problematic due to lingering disagreement among phylogenetic hypotheses.
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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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Like pangolins, aardvarks have a long, protrusile tongue and a gizzard-like stomach.
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Like pangolins, aardvarks have a long, protrusile tongue and a gizzard-like stomach.
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The dark wyrm stood upon the caravel's main deck, facing sternward and digging through the somercastle like a pangolin after termites.
The Veiled Dragon
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Most placental mammals have teeth that are capped with enamel, but there are also lineages without teeth, such as anteaters, pangolins and baleen whales, or with enamelless teeth, such as armadillos, sloths, aardvarks and pygmy and sperm whales.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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An alternative strategy can be seen in anteaters and pangolins: the tongue has lost most of its cranial attachments.
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Like pangolins, aardvarks have a long, protrusile tongue and a gizzard-like stomach.
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Other species include the endemic water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquaticus, African golden cat Felis aurata (K), giant forest genet Genetta victoriae, the endemic aquatic genet Osbornictis piscivora, leopard Panthera pardus, giant ground pangolin Manis gigantea, aardvark orycteropus afer, pygmy antelope Neotragus batesii, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, bush pig Potamochoerus porcus and giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni (V) and great cane rat Thryonomys swinderianus.
Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo
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They name this clade Pegasoferae, a name derived by uniting Pegasus (in their view a sort of bat-perissodactyl combination) with Ferae (the name they use for the carnivoran + pangolin clade).
Archive 2006-08-01
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Pangolins are conspicuous and remarkable because their backs are covered with large, overlapping scales made up of agglutinated hairs.
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The adult Pangolin has ho teeth, in consequence it cannot bite or eat hard food, and it has a long extensile tongue which can be protruded for a considerable distance through its small tube-like mouth.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Other species include the endemic water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquaticus, African golden cat Felis aurata (K), giant forest genet Genetta victoriae, the endemic aquatic genet Osbornictis piscivora, leopard Panthera pardus, giant ground pangolin Manis gigantea, aardvark orycteropus afer, pygmy antelope Neotragus batesii, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, bush pig Potamochoerus porcus and giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni (V) and great cane rat Thryonomys swinderianus.
Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Pangolins are conspicuous and remarkable because their backs are covered with large, overlapping scales made up of agglutinated hairs.
