This animal, which looks like an armored dragon, is actually an ant addict.
Pangolins are the only mammals covered in scales. scales so tough that even a lion can't penetrate them. But that's not their greatest weapon. In case of danger, they roll into a ball like hedgehogs. And strangely enough, this defensive tactic makes them easy targets for predators. They eat 70 million ants a day, Pangolins' tongues are longer than their bodies. They stick their tongues into the anthill. Since they have no teeth, they take the ants straight into their stomachs without chewing.
And sometimes they sleep so deeply that grass grows next to them. But this sleep is also a defense tactic: It thinks if it doesn't move, it won't be noticed.
It's no fun to know that it's the most trafficked mammal in the world.
Pangolins are the only mammals covered in scales. scales so tough that even a lion can't penetrate them. But that's not their greatest weapon. In case of danger, they roll into a ball like hedgehogs. And strangely enough, this defensive tactic makes them easy targets for predators. They eat 70 million ants a day, Pangolins' tongues are longer than their bodies. They stick their tongues into the anthill. Since they have no teeth, they take the ants straight into their stomachs without chewing.
And sometimes they sleep so deeply that grass grows next to them. But this sleep is also a defense tactic: It thinks if it doesn't move, it won't be noticed.
It's no fun to know that it's the most trafficked mammal in the world.
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