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	Giant Pangolin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The giant pangolin is the largest species of pangolin, or "scaly anteaters"–the large, scaled mammals belonging to the Manidae family.
		Giant pangolin have long snouts, a long and thick tail, and large front claws.
		Because of its relatively large size, the giant pangolin is particularly well-suited to breaking open termite mounds, done by leaning on the mound and resting its weight on its tail, and then ripping into the mound with its front claws.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giant_Pangolin (588 words)

	Pangolin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pangolins have large scales on their skin and are found in tropical regions of Africa and Asia.
		Pangolins have an enormous salivary gland in their chests to lubricate the tongue with sticky, ant-catching saliva.
		Pangolin is eaten as a type of bushmeat in parts of Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pangolin (525 words)

	Pangolin - LoveToKnow 1911
		PANGOLIN, the Malay name for one of the species of the scaly anteaters, which belong to the order Edentata (q.v.), and typify the family Manidae and the genus Manis.
		Pangolins range from I to 3 ft. in length, exclusive of the tail, which may be much shorter than or nearly twice the length of the rest of the animal.
		The Asiatic pangolins are characterized by having the central series of body-scales continued to the extreme end of the tail, by having many isolated hairs growing between the scales of the back, and by their small external ears.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pangolin (497 words)

	Pangolins
		Pangolins, also sometimes called scaly anteaters, are strange looking creatures covered with protective horny, overlapping scales.
		The giant pangolin (Manis gigantea) is mostly found in the moister areas of Uganda, western Kenya and Tanzania.
		Pangolins feed mostly on ants and termites, which are gathered up from the ground.
	www.encounter.co.za /article/163.html (638 words)

	African Wildlife Foundation: Wildlives
		The giant pangolin, found in the moister areas of Uganda, western Kenya and Tanzania, is a very strong digger, enabling it to open termite mounds with ease.
		The tree pangolin occurs in the same regions as the giant pangolin but is most commonly found in forests of secondary growth.
		Pangolins dig the insects from mounds with their claws and use their extremely long tongues (up to 16 inches in larger pangolins) to eat them.
	www.awf.org /wildlives/178 (738 words)

	Pangolin
		The pangolins or scaly anteaters are mammals with large scales on their skins which can be found in certain parts of Africa and Asia.
		Pangolins have large, plate-like scales, which are an unusual feature among mammals.
		They can curl up into a ball when threatened, with their overlapping scales acting as armor.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ph/Pholidota.html (114 words)

	What is a pangolin?
		The pangolin's body is covered with large, flat, imbricated horny scales; it somewhat resembles the New World armadillo in terms of its feeding habits and its employment of a curled up, hedgehog-like defensive posture.
		Pangolins can amble along on all fours, but for speed they stand up on two feet using their long tail for support.
		Pangolins are endangered (CITES Appendix II or III, depending on species) because their skin makes attractive leather for boots, similar to snakeskin or armadillo boots.
	www.pangolin.com /PangolinPic.html (524 words)

	On "The Pangolin"
		In "The Pangolin" (1936) the anteater of the title is the focal center of the poet's thoughts, affording the means by which she works through to a new definition of man.
		She again uses graceful to describe the movement of the pangolin which is "the not unchain-like machine-like/form and frictionless creep of a thing/made graceful by adversities, con-/ /versities." Moore sees the pangolin as moving with a steady, methodical rhythm which suits its lifestyle which is filled with both difficulties and contradictions.
		Similarly Moore celebrates the pangolin's adventures, for which his scales are a sign and protection, and the struggle of "monk and monk and monk" now "laid out across stone mullions" in a monument to their efforts and to intervening grace.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/moore/pangolin.htm (14780 words)

	Ladywildlife's Genet Page
		The pangolin marks its range by scattering feces along its track and by marking trees with urine or a secretion from a gland near its anus.
		Pangolin and Man: Pangolin meat is popular with local African people, particularly the flesh of the Cape pangolin.
		Locals tell of the pangolin’s “ant baths.” It settles on an ant nest, raises its scales and allows the insects to crawl underneath.
	ladywildlife.com /animal/pangolin.html (853 words)

	--[GetawaytoAfrica.com - Getaway magazine]--
		Since pangolins are nocturnal animals, feeding when diurnal ants are asleep in their galleries, Jonathan became a nocturnal creature in his own right.
		Pangolins are hunted by humans for their scales used for muti.
		The pangolin, queer creature that it looks, has a way of putting things into perspective: there's this mammal that's sniffed its way in the dark for at least 40 million years, and we think it's a little stupid because it doesn't have a big brain and can't see well.
	www.getawaytoafrica.com /content/magazine/features/print.asp?id=275 (2104 words)

	Anteater Movies
		The largest representative of the group is the Giant Anteater or Ant-bear (Myrmecophaga tridactyla or jubata), an animal measuring 4 feet (1.2 m) in length without the tail, and 2 feet (60 cm) in height at the shoulder.
		As the insects swarm to the damaged part of their dwelling, it draws them into its mouth by means of its long, flexible, rapidly moving tongue covered with sticky saliva.
		The two tamandua anteaters, as typified by Tamandua (or Uroleptes) tetradactyla, are much smaller than the Giant Anteater, and differ essentially from it in their habits, being mainly tree-dwelling.
	www.junglewalk.com /video/Anteater-movie.htm (488 words)

	Giant Pangolin Skull
		Giant Pangolin - The giant pangolin, native to Africa, is the largest member of the order Philodontia (meaning "scaled animals").
		Pangolins do not possess teeth but specialize in eating insects, particularly ants and termites.
		When threatened pangolins can coil in a ball to protect their vulnerable under belly as well as emitting a foul smelling spray from their anal gland.
	www.skullsunlimited.com /Pangolin_Skull.html (128 words)

	pangolin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although these slow and deliberate animals may initially look related to Anteaters, it is now believed that their similarities may be more accurately described as adaptations to a common way of life rather then to actual relationship.
		Pangolins are often called "Scaly Anteaters" because of the abundance of scales covering their bodies.
		This diet of soft insects explains the Pangolins total lack of teeth as well as their poorly developed attachments for chewing muscles.
	members.mweb.co.zw /wildlife/mammals/pangolin/pangolin.htm (392 words)

	Anteaters
		Others, like the giant pangolin, are terrestrial and prefer an open habitat, where they dig burrows.
		For protection while sleeping, or when frightened, the pangolin rolls up in a tight ball and raises its scales, which are sharp on the edges; a female will also roll up around its young.
		The pangolin is toothless but has a long, thin, sticky tongue with which it picks up ants and termites, its main diet.
	members.fortunecity.com /phylcage/past/animals/anteaters.htm (578 words)

	The Cryptid Zoo: Gigantic Animals
		Giant animals are quite common in science fiction, including King Kong, Godzilla, many different kinds of gigantic insects and plenty of truly huge sea monsters.
		Among the reptiles, there were many giants that survived long enough that early humans surely saw such creatures, including giant turtles the size of cars and giant lizards truly deserving of the label "dragon." The largest flying birds we know of are the presumably extinct teratorns, with 25-foot wingspans.
		Giant earwigs, more than twice the size of ordinary earwigs, were discovered on the island of St. Helena in the eighteenth century, but then seemingly went extinct.
	www.newanimal.org /giant-animals.htm (1215 words)

	Genus Manis or pangolins
		Giant pangolins are terrestrial animals, preferring not to live in trees.
		Pangolins are tree-dwelling, nocturnal animals despite their chunky armor, which in fact helps it cling to the surface of treelimbs.
		Pangolins are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and there is a blanket ban on all trade in them.
	www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Pholidota/Manidae/Manis (389 words)

	Brain Bumpers
		Pangolins, also known as "scaly anteaters", are insect-eating mammals.
		Most species of pangolin can be found in great abundance in parts of Asia and Africa.
		However, the Giant Pangolin is endangered – their numbers have greatly decreased as a result of farming, deforestation, and hunting.
	www.yesmag.bc.ca /brain/about.php (201 words)

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		Six giant blue aardvarks dancing on the wall, Six giant blue aardvarks dancing on the wall, And if one giant blue aardvark should accident'ly fall There'll be five giant blue Jesuit aardvarks dancing on the wall.
		Five giant blue Jesuit aardvarks dancing on the wall, Five giant blue Jesuit aardvarks dancing on the wall, And if one giant blue Jesuit aardvark should accident'ly fall There'll be four giant blue Jesuit aardvarks in diving boots dancing on the wall.
		Four giant blue Jesuit aardvarks in diving boots dancing on the wall Four giant blue Jesuit aardvarks in diving boots dancing on the wall And if one giant blue Jesuit aardvark in diving boots should accident'ly fall There'll be three giant blue Jesuit aardvarks in diving boots and a purple-spotted pangolin dancing on the wall.
	www.nyrond.co.uk /filks/sf/tengreen.txt (372 words)

	Pangolin,Mammals,Pangolin Picture,Mammal Pictures,Catalog,Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Their large, overlapping scales, dark brown to yellowish, are flattened and horny elevations of the skin.
		Pangolins range in size from the Chinese pangolin, M. pentadactyla, which may be only 71 cm (28 in) long, including a 25-cm (10-in) tail, to the giant pangolin, M. gigantea, which may be 1.5 m (5 ft) long, including a 65-cm (26-in) tail.
		Pangolins are toothless, but their tongues, used to lick up their food of ants or termites, may be as much as 25 cm (10 in) in length.
	www.4to40.com /4to40.com_non_ssl/earth/geography/htm/mammalsindex.asp?counter=119 (146 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Northwestern Congolian lowland forests (AT0126) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The giant pangolin is one of the most unusual species in the forest.
		Unfortunately, giant pangolins have become vulnerable due to hunting for their meat and the use of their scales as love charms.
		The forests are filled with African buffalo, forest antelopes, forest elephants, and giant pangolins.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0126.html (494 words)

	Pangolin at Animal Gifts Galore
		Pangolins or scaly anteaters are mammals in the Pholidota order.
		The physical appearance of pangolins is marked by large, hardened, plate-like scales, which are an unusual feature among mammals.
		In China, scales of Pangolin purportedly reduce swelling, promote blood circulation and help breast-feeding mother produce milk.
	animalgiftsgalore.com /pangolin.htm (347 words)

	Cryptozoology - Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		However no pangolin in modern times has been reported to be even remotely close to the size of the Veo.
		In the past though there was a pangolin that grew to over 8 feet native to the nearby islands of Java and Borneo, the giant pangolin, manis paleojavanicus.
		If these supposedly extinct giants also inhabited Rintja, perhaps the Veo is its modern day descendant.
	www.cryptozoology.com /glossary/glossary_topic.php?id=30 (184 words)

	The Pangolin Is A Strange And Scarce Scaly Mammal
		The Pangolin Is A Strange And Scarce Scaly Mammal
		The Cape Pangolin (discussed here), also known as the Scaly Anteater, is found in most Eastern and Southern African countries.
		the Giant Ground or Giant Pangolin in moister areas from Senegal, Chad and Sudan in the north to Angola, Congo and Tanzania in the south.
	www.african-safari-pictures.com /pangolin.html (298 words)

	Manidae
		The earliest fossil pangolin (Pholidota, Manidae) from Africa.
		The discovery of a giant pangolin in the Pliocene of Uganda.
		A skeleton of Necromanis franconica, a pangolin (Pholidota, Mammalia) of the Aquitan from Saulcet in the Allier Basin (France).
	tolweb.org /tree?group=Manidae (250 words)

	MEGALANIA DINOSAUR PAGE -- DINOSAUR NEWS
		Take the spiny anteater of Australia, the pangolin of Africa, and the giant anteater of Latin America (please!).
		By the tenet of convergence, there really is a best approach and an ideal set of tools for grappling with life's most demanding jobs.
		The spiny anteater, pangolin and giant anteater all subsist on a diet of ants and termites, and myrmecophagy, it turns out,is a taxing, specialized trade.
	members.tripod.com /~megalania/convergentevolution.html (1821 words)

	News - Africa's apes in crisis
		A large and generally illegal trade in "bushmeat" has developed into a major commercial activity that threatens the survival of gorillas and chimpanzees, said the Ape Alliance in a report.
		Many other species are also at risk, including the giant pangolin, forest elephant and dwarf crocodile, according to the report, The African Bushmeat Trade A Recipe For Extinction.
		The extent of the crisis was shown in Congo, where 15 000 animal carcasses, including 293 chimpanzees, were counted at bushmeat markets in Brazzaville, it said.
	home.intekom.com /animals/services/news/wildlife/apescrisis.html (275 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Iraq Special Report
		A stuffed giant pangolin, a sort of anteater with scales, was covered with debris.
		The newspaper Babel, owned by Saddam Hussein's son Uday, today reflected the official spirit by portraying the president as as a knight bedecked in Bedouin garb astride a white charger and slaying a giant snake with a lance.
		Al-Thawra, the official paper of the governing Baath Party, reported that Saddam Hussein has dubbed this era of Iraq's history "Al Fatah," or "The Opening," a reference to the series of battles led by the Prophet Muhammad in his quest to spread Islam throughout the Arabian peninsula.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/stories/baghdad121998.htm (1049 words)

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