Did you know a baby pangolin is called a pangopup! Pangopups often ride on their mothers tails.
Click on the image for a pdf to print and colour:
More pangolin colouring pages:
Visit the pangolin crafts page and get creative making pangolins in card or felt.
Add a Pangolin bauble to your Christmas tree to help raise awareness of these special animals.
This bauble is has three layers: two outer decorated ones, and a third central one that helps provide the structure. All three slot into the square piece of card.
I used an old breakfast cereal box and scraps of wrapping paper for the scales.
Click on the image below to open a printable pdf, don’t forget to add an eye on each side.
Other pangolin crafts for Christmas – pop-up card and easy pangolin baubles.
Find out more about Pipisin the Pangolin.
Also known as a bearcat, even though they aren’t bears or cats, binturongs are large civets from south-east Asia that smell like buttered popcorn.
Binturongs live in the canopy of tropical forests and will sleep high in tree branches, curling up with their heads tucked under their tails. They are one of only two carnivores (the other is the kinkajou) with a prehensile tail. The tail is almost as long as the body and acts like another limb when climbing.
They play an important role in spreading the seeds of the fruits that they eat. They are also one of the few animals animals with digestive enzymes capable of softening the tough outer covering of the seeds of strangler figs.
Considered rare throughout much of its range, the binturong is believed to be declining and is classed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. There are nine described subspecies of binturong, although the Palawan population (Arctictis binturong whitei) is often considered as a separate species.
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World Binturong Day is organised by ABConservation – the one and only association in the world that is entirely dedicated to the study and protection of binturongs. Find out more about their website and like them on Facebook.
Pangolins are the only mammals in the world with scales. The scales are made of keratin, the same material that finger nails and rhino horn are made from. The number of scales depends on the species – Sunda pangolins have been estimated to have about 900 to over 1000 scales.
But don’t worry, you don’t have to colour them all in individually…. unless you want to!
Click on the image for a downloadable pdf and enjoy your colouring!
Rachel L Shaw 