The bodies ofPangolins are very flexible vertically—that is, they can roll themselves up into a ball, and coil and uncoil themselves very readily—but they cannot turn round within the confined limits of their burrows.
The Pangolins are also Ant-eaters, but the peculiar nature of the covering of their bodies will not allow them to be classed with the preceding family.
The Pangolins are of medium size; they never exceed a yard in length.
Pangolins are of small or moderate size, terrestrial and burrowing, and feed mainly on termites or white ants; some of the species being more or less arboreal.
Only the anteaters and pangolins are absolutely without teeth (Lat.
Though in some respects they may be thought to resemble the lizard, the pangolins have warm blood, and nourish their young like the rest of the mammalia.
Seven different kinds of pangolinsare known, four of which live in Africa, and three in Asia.
These classes, however, have never been very large, and consist of two small families; the pangolins and the armadillos.
It is well to remember that the pangolins and armadillos are the last survivors of a great and ancient family of armour-bearers.
The armadillo has an armour of quite another kind, notwithstanding the fact that pangolins and armadillos belong to the same great family, and each eats ants.
In the Armadillos, Glyptodonts, Anteaters, and Pangolins it is much developed and firmly united to the vertebral column by both the ilia and the ischia.
In the Pangolins and Anteaters the scapula is very broad and rounded; there is no clavicle in the Pangolins, and generally only a vestigial one in Anteaters.
In the American anteaters and the pangolins among the Edentata no traces of teeth have been found at any age.
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