Word: pangolin
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Walker identified it as a pangolin, a rare, highly-specialized, prehensile-tailed mam mal which eats ants and termites. Because the natives of southern Asia think that it catches ants beneath its scales while pre tending to be asleep, they look upon it as a highly untrustworthy animal. According to one legend, whenever the pangolin answers a call made by a man in the forest, the man quickly meets with disaster. So far as Mr. Walker knew, Pandora is the only pangolin in captivity, certainly the only...
...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...