Pangolins, with the exception of humans, have no natural enemies
Among the many animals, each animal has its own characteristics, I believe that many people in the understanding, after the pangolin will also have a special feeling for this animal, after seeing it can not forget its appearance. There are 8 species of pangolins in the world, half in Africa and half in Asia. But every species is already on the verge of extinction, which makes many people can't help but sigh.
Pangolins are actually a very common animal in the south 60 years ago, but it is difficult to see it now, and now there are more Chinese pangolins, but compared to the 900,000 in the 60s, the number has dropped by more than 90% today. Many people do not understand why animals without natural enemies, small in courage, defensive, and eating and drinking are on the verge of extinction.
Pangolin is an ancient animal, the appearance is like its name, clad in armor, the greater skill is to dig the earth and dig holes, on the earth it even lived for 40 million years. Through time, you can feel that its existence is indeed relatively long, and the reason why it eats and wears is because it eats and lives by digging, and the hole is also its greatest ability. In particular, the mud hills are also its strengths, and only the stone mountains are what it cannot dig.
It can be known from its ability to dig holes that its claws should be very powerful, although it walks very slowly, but its digging speed is very fast, not worse than the machine. In particular, the front paws, because of their strength and strength, can quickly dig out a one-meter-deep soil hole, and they can also quickly cut open the place where there is rubble and mud.
It also has a characteristic when foraging is that it is diurnal and nocturnal, and always begins to forage at night, because the animals it eats are termites and the natural number of ants is very large. Pangolin it also has some disadvantages is that the eyesight is relatively poor, it can easily find the trace of food at night, all because it has a good sense of smell and hearing, after feeling the nest of ants, it will first pull a small hole, and then probe into the body to listen, when it hears that there are ants drilling into the nest, it will use its tongue to lick food.
It also has a long snake, and because it is covered with scales, it makes people feel that it is particularly similar to Xu Yicheng, in fact, it is not a warm reptile like a lizard, but a thermostatic mammal. Its tongue is completely different when it is relaxed and used, its tongue root is still grown in the stomach, the interface is in the throat, it can be coiled up in the stomach and can also make a circle, so the tongue is particularly long, one is present in the body, and one can be extended out of the body.
Although the mouth is very small, pointed and thin, and has no teeth, it has a throat belt, and the folded tongue will also stick out when the tongue is folded inside the throat bag and then eat food, which is basically about twice as long as when it is relaxed, and there are still moving bones on the tongue, which can control the growth of the tongue.
When eating ants, in addition to the fact that the tongue is particularly long, but also because it has a lot of sticky mucus on the tongue, the ants are glued and swallowed directly in the stomach, in order to be able to eat ants, it will also lick some sand and gravel by the way. Through the Chinese pangolin can eat 500 termites at a time, this situation can be known, it can eat thousands of termites a year, it can be said that its food intake is also particularly large.
Of course, it is also a kind of eating, very restrained animal, and will not eat all the ants, sometimes it will eat a part of it first and leave, after a period of time will be the ant nest will be completely hollowed out, mainly according to the amount of food they eat every day to adjust their own recipes. Generally in the winter, because there are more termites, they will eat more termites and eat less ants.
As a mammal, in addition to eating, of course, it is also to sleep, it is particularly deep when sleeping, basically in a very hidden state, because it likes to sleep peacefully, especially during the day, it should rest well, so it will dig the hole very deep, coupled with the reason of the hot flashes, so it will also ensure that the temperature of the cave where it lives is between 18 and 27 degrees when digging.
The reason why it is particularly timid is that in addition to living alone, it also likes to move, basically living no more than 10 days, and will soon have its own new home, which seems safer to them and at the same time can make many animals like. Because after digging a cave, they can make the cave where they live for other animals to live, which is really good.
Also, not all pangolins live in caves, and some live in trees, and generally pangolins that live on trees will curl up on the branches of trees and find a tree hole when sleeping. They also have a very flexible long tail, which is longer than the body, just like monkeys with a flexible tail.
There are pangolins living in trees, in fact, they do not like to climb trees, but like to swim, when swimming, their speed is also particularly fast, which will also make people particularly curious, because they will swallow air into the stomach in order to increase buoyancy when swimming.
There are also South African pangolins in the world that walk only on two legs, and are the only ones that walk only on their hind legs, and in order to maintain balance when walking, they need to stretch their tails and curl up their forelimbs. It mainly eats ants, rarely eats termites, and it is not like other pangolins, it only comes out at night to forage, and in winter, it will choose to come out during the day to forage.
Although the pangolin basically has no weaknesses, in fact, it is difficult to be raised when it is timid and picky, and it usually does not live for 200 days in the zoo. It can be said that it has no natural enemies in addition to humans, in addition to easy death after artificial breeding, fertility is also particularly large, which is why the number of pangolins is getting smaller and smaller, I hope that everyone can protect the animals to protect pangolins.
