It lives in North, Central, and South America. The Nine-banded armadillo is the most widespread of the armadillos. Unfortunately, these animals are in high demand for traditional Chinese and Vietnamese medicine in southern China and Vietnam because their scales are believed to have medicinal properties. The scales on their tails are capable of a cutting action to inflict serious wounds.
When threatened, their defense mechanism is to curl into a ball with their scales outward, hiss and puff, and lash out with their sharp-edged tails. They rely heavily on smell and hearing, and they have strong front legs that are used for tearing into termite mounds. Pangolins have very poor vision and they also lack teeth. Ĭonsume 140 to 200 g (5 to 7 oz) of insects per day. Pangolins are an important regulator of termite populations in their natural habitats they can. Pangolins are nocturnal creatures and feed mainly on ants and termites, which they capture using their long tongues. They live in hollow trees or burrows, depending on the species. Pangolins have large, protective keratin scales, similar in material to fingernails and toenails, covering their skin they are the only known mammals with this feature.
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