Dear children, congratulations on the completion of your second term examinations. I have wished you well at the beginning and I believe you tried your best, which I believe God will bless, through your results.
By this time next week, you would have begun you holiday.
Hey! holiday is around the corner and I can feel the excitement in the air. Now that you are free to plan how to spend your time, please, engage in: writing stories, cooking, reading story books, crafts, acquiring knowledge about animals, places and the like.
Today, I will like you to learn about an animal called pangolin.
Introduction
Pangolins are shy mammals that are not seen very often. They are mostly active at night. Pangolins are also called scaly anteaters because they look like anteaters that are covered with scales.
They eat over 20,000 ants a day but never get stung!
Where Pangolins live
The eight species, or types, of pangolins live in Asia and Africa. They are found in the tropical regions. Tree pangolins spend most of their time in trees. Ground pangolins and giant pangolins prefer woodlands, grasslands, hills, or plains—places with sandy soil and plenty of ants and termites.
Physical Features
Pangolins have armored bodies that are covered with tough, brown scales. They have small heads and very long tails. The tail of the tree pangolin is longer than its body. It uses the tail to climb trees. The other pangolin species have shorter tails.
Behaviour
The name pangolin comes from a Malayan word that means “rolling over.” If a pangolin feels threatened, it will curl into a ball to protect the face and inner body parts that do not have scales. A pangolin mother will wrap its body around a baby to protect it.
Pangolins can hear and smell very well, but their eyesight is poor. Pangolins have no teeth. Their tongues are long, sticky, and elastic. They use them to catch ants and termites. They open termite nests with their sharp front claws.
Source: www Britannica.com
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