What is Pangolin?
{{Taxobox | name = Pangolins | image = Manidae.jpg | image_width = 220px | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | infraclassis = [[Eutheria]] | superordo = [[Laurasiatheria]] | ordo = '''Pholidota''' | familia = '''Manidae''' | familia_authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1821}} '''Pangolins''' (or '''scaly anteaters''') are [[mammals]] which live in [[Africa]] and [[Asia]]. They have [[Scale (zoology)|scales]] on their [[skin]]. They are the only mammals which have this [[adaptation]]. There are three [[genera]] of pangolin, all of which eat [[ants]] and [[termites]]. They catch their [[food]] using their [[tongue]]s, and they do not eat anything else. These scaled mammals are one of the most threatened groups of mammals.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1111/aje.12809|title=Insights into the status and distribution of pangolins in Togo (West Africa)|year=2021|last1=Segniagbeto|first1=Gabriel Hoinsoudé|last2=Assou|first2=Délagnon|last3=Agbessi|first3=Eric Koffi G.|last4=Atsri|first4=Honam Komina|last5=d'Cruze|first5=Neil|last6=Auliya|first6=Mark|last7=Fa|first7=Julia E.|last8=Luiselli|first8=Luca|journal=African Journal of Ecology|volume=59|issue=2|pages=342–349|s2cid=226342276|url=https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/626544/10/Pangolins%20of%20Togo%20-revised.pdf }}</ref> Unfortunately we know very little of their distribution in West African countries. Evidence of the white bellied pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) has been found. No evidence of the giant pangolin (Smutsia gigantic) was found. Perhaps the giant pangolin no longer appears in West Africa. Pangolins have features of [[armadillos]] (long, ant eating tongue and broad tail) and [[sloths]] (claws), but the pangolin is in a completely different [[order (biology)|order]]. The pangolin belongs to the order '''Pholidota'''. Pangolins have large, hardened, overlapping plate-like scales. The pangolin scales are made of [[keratin]]. and are attached to muscles under the skin. and can be moved to point towards predators. Hair grows between the scales and near t