### animal | vertebrate | mammal:

Pangolin
* All pangolins eat ants and termites
  - have long claws, the ability to curl into a ball, and are primarily nocturnal
* Most pangolins are classified as mammals.
* Most pangolins eat diets
  - insects
  - special diets
* Most pangolins have body shapes
  - chamber stomachs
  - eyesights
  - heads
  - ovaries
* Most pangolins have poor eyesights
  - vision
  - small point heads
  - spines
* Most pangolins have taper body shapes
  - possess organs
  - rely on senses
  - share similar characteristics
  - spend most of their time in trees, and some are good swimmers
  - survive on diets
* Most pangolins use sticky tongues
* Some pangolins belong to families
  - curl into balls
  - have length
* Some pangolins have long sticky tongues
  - migration
  - prehensile tails
  - teeth
  - live in trees but most are ground dwellers
  - occupy burrows
  - protect undersides
* Some pangolins reach maturity
  - rely on smell
  - return to burrows
  - secrete smelly substances.
  * They have scales on their skin. There are different types of pangolin. Some types live in trees. All pangolins eat ants and termites. They catch their food using their tongues. Pangolins curl up when they feel scared so that their soft belly is hidden from attack. In southern China and other countries people kill pangolins to eat them. Because of this, there are not many pangolins left in some places.
  * eat ants and termites. They cannot eat anything else
* adapt to habitats.
* also have a long, narrow tongue that they use to probe nests
  - long, muscular tongues to reach and lap up ants and termites in cavities
  - secrete a foul-smelling odor from the glands near their anus
* are able to eat ants and termites once they are a month old
  - another such species vulnerable to the effects of poaching and a reduction of habitat
  - completely toothless
  - covered in overlapping keratin scales
* are found all over Africa
  - naturally in tropical regions throughout Africa and Asia
  - insectivores, feeding on ants and termites, thus acting as natural pest controllers
  - killed and eaten in all parts of the world
  - little studied and little understood species
  - native to tropical areas of Africa and Asia
* are nocturnal animals, using their well-developed sense of smell to find insects
  - mammals that use their keen sense of smell to forage for food in the dark
  - nocturnal, leaving their burrows after midnight to feed
  - particularly susceptible to pneumonia due to their lack of fur
  - placentals
  - sexually dimorphic, meaning the genders differ wildly in weight
* are solitary animals and only interact for mating
  - animals, living primarily on their own
* are the only mammal that has keratin scales
  - mammals known to have plate-like scales
  - the most trafficked and poached mammal
  - timid and live alone or in pairs
  - traded by the ton, frozen and alive
  - trafficked by land and sea in Southeast Asia and China
  - used extensively in both Chinese and African traditional medicines
  - usually solitary but their social life is governed by their enhanced sense of smell
* can also dig insects from mounds with their claws.
* completely lack teeth, and the lower jaw small bladelike bone.
* dig deep burrows for sleeping and nesting that contain circular chambers.
* drink by rapidly darting out their tongue.
* feed mainly on termites but also eat ants and other insects
  - mostly on ants and termites, which are gathered up from the ground
  - only on burrowing social insects , such as ants and termites
* have a gland near their anus that emits a nasty odor
  - long tail, short powerful limbs, and a conical head
  - special gland which secretes a pungent liquid which can scare off predators
* have a very long tongue that extends into the abdominal cavity
  - poor sense of vision , and therefore rely heavily on smell and hearing
  - an elongate and tapering body covered above with overlapping scales
  - large plate-like scales that cover their body
  - long, broad tails and small, conical heads with jaws that lack teeth
  - methods
  - no teeth
  - vision, so they locate termite and ant nests with their strong sense of smell
  - short but powerful limbs, a long body tapering to a conical head and a long tail
  - cells
  - corpi
  - nuclei
  - skulls
  - sterna
* lack teeth and the ability to chew
* live in trees and underground.
* look like anteaters.
* only have a single offspring a year.
* receive attention.
* receive little attention
  - research attention
* reside mostly in the bioluminescent jungles of Ark.
* share characteristics
* spend most of the daytime sleeping, curled up into a ball
  - the daytime hours sleeping in their burrow or in the hollow of a tree
* usually reach sexual maturity after a year of life.
* vary in size.
* walk on all four of their stout limbs, which are adapted for digging.