Pangolins News
Toothless wonders, from anteaters to earthworms, these 10 creatures prove you don't need teeth to be a master eater. Discover how these 10 animals, including baleen whales, pangolins, and even some birds, have evolved unique and ingenious methods like powerful suctions, sticky tongues, and gizzards – to thrive and devour their meals without a single tooth. It's a fascinating look at adaptation in the animal kingdom.
The researchers found that local hunters in Gabon are selling increasing numbers of Pangolins to Asian workers stationed on the continent for major logging, oil exploration, and agro-industry projects.
The scaly, armor-clad mammals found only in Asia and Africa, are facing extinction due to poaching.
Of the eight species of Pangolin found worldwide (four each in Asia and Africa), two are known from India - Indian Pangolin Manis crassicaudata and Chinese Pangolin Manis pentadactyla.
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