The short legs come down the body and are tipped with sharp claws. The forefeet are longer and stronger than the hind feet. The pangolin is a burrowing nocturnal mammal. The male pangolin has the scrotum sheathed inside abdominal skin so as to avoid head loss. In both sexes, eyelids are devoid of lubricating glands.
Females possess two mammae with their auxiliary teats.
Generally the perennial glad exudes a musky acrid secretion which helps the animal for recognition of sexes. The pangolins inhabit the subtropical and deciduous forests of Mahabharat range of central Nepal, where rolling hills and termites abound. The are known to occur in wooded shrubby slopes at high altitudes near the tree line. In their constant quests for and termite nests pangolins regularly travel between the ground level and upper layer of jungle canopy ranging from 5 to 20 ft above ground. Mostly pangolins burrow into the ground by means of their heavily clawed fore-foot and make a chamber about eight feet deep.