The scales of the pangolin are considered to be of great value in the treatment of certain diseases and the skins are usually sold by the pound as are the horns of deer, wapiti, gorals, and serows.
The Chinese often raid a lair in order to gather up the quills of the porcupine and the bony scales of the pangolin which are esteemed for medicinal purposes.
Another method in which the pangolinattacks and kills elephants is by coiling itself tightly around the end of the elephant's trunk, and so suffocating it.
The scattered hairs of the Pangolin have no sebaceous glands excepting on the snout.
Cuvier named them "Pangolin gigantesque," deeming them, on account of their general form and cleft terminations, to pertain to the Edentata.
This mode of protection, be it observed, is also adopted by the Pangolin and by the {177} Hedgehog.
The only way you can find the ipi or the pangolin is by the trail they leave on the soil, and following them till you reach their burrows.
The pangolin had scales, but they were much smaller.
There was no doubt that this scale belonged to the pangolin family, only I learned that the animal from which it was taken was of a larger variety.
I saw at once that the ipi belonged to the pangolin genus (Manis of the zoologists), which is a very singular kind of animal.
Sometimes these burrows are of very great size, that of the Indian pangolin often running for ten or twelve feet downward into the ground, and having at the end a sleeping-chamber at least five or six feet in diameter.
The different species of pangolin vary a good deal in size, but the largest of them, the giant pangolin, is between four and five feet long when fully grown, including the tail.
When a pangolincomes to the edge of an overhanging rock, and wishes to descend to the ground below, it coils itself up into a ball and then rolls over, alighting on the edges of its scales just as a hedgehog does upon its spines.
And still he was captive to the environment of the scaly crystalloid raccoon/pangolin creature, and doubly imperiled of survival.
The Pangolin lives in burrows in the earth, or sometimes in the large hollows of colossal trees which have fallen to the ground.
The Pangolin (from the Javanese word Pangoeling, meaning to roll into a ball) have short legs, furnished with stout claws; they are devoid of any external ear and have no trace of teeth.
When danger approaches the pangolin does not run away, but rolls itself together into a ball like the hedge-hog.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pangolin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animal; antelope; armadillo; bat; elephant; hare; horse; kangaroo; mammal; opossum; pig; rat
