There are eight species of pangolin in the world: four in Asia and four in Africa.

Asian pangolins:

• Chinese
• sunda
• Indian
• Philippine

African pangolins:

• long-tailed or black-bellied
• tree or white-bellied
• cape or Temminck’s ground
• giant ground

Pangolins feed on ants and termites. They can eat 70 million ants a year, collecting them up with their very long sticky tongues. They don’t have any teeth but, once inside the stomach, the ants and ground up with stones.

 

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