pangolin: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Manidae • scaly anteater

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Sunda, or Malayan, pangolin

A pangolin curled into a tight ball, showing its overlapping brown scales, sits on green grass.

Black-bellied pangolin with dark fur and overlapping brown scales climbs among green leaves and branches in a forest in the Central African Republic.

World map showing the geographic ranges of endangered pangolin species, with color-coded regions across Africa and Asia. Each region is labeled with the pangolin species name-giant, white-bellied, black-bellied, Temminck's, Indian, Chinese, Philippine, and Sunda-and their conservation status, such as endangered, vulnerable, or critically endangered, is indicated near photos of each species.

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A pangolin walks through grass with a blue circle around it and the word endangered written in white across the image.

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