Word: pangolin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allen has brought back with him a large collection of specimens of all sorts. He has a tremendous number of small animals and birds of various shapes and colors. One of his most interesting specimens is a skin of a pangolin a very odd variety of ant eater. It is a toothless beast which lives on ants and similar insects, devouring them with its long tongue. Some of them grow to six feet in length. There is also a small variety. The animals shape strongly resembles a rather distorted and enlarged cigar which has grown a head and legs...