: any of a family (Manidae of the order Pholidota) of Asian and African toothless mammals having the body covered dorsally with large imbricated horny scales
called alsoscaly anteater
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Over 100,000 pangolins are poached from the wild every year.—Michael Adkesson, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025 Visitors can experience it through game drives, night safaris, waterfall hikes, and rare pangolin conservation encounters.—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2025 To date, every animal featured in the series is impacted by climate change, and that’s also true for pangolins, particularly the Temminck’s ground pangolin.—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025 In addition, traffickers were often found to be smuggling sea horses alongside other products, like pangolin scales and elephant ivory.—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for pangolin
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