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Pangolins, sometimes known as scaly anteaters, [12] ... National Geographic video of a pangolin Archived 23 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine;
National Geographic video of a pangolin; Proceedings of the Workshop on Trade and Conservation of Pangolins Native to South and Southeast Asia (PDF) The Phylogeny of Living and Extinct Pangolins (Mammalia, Pholidota) and Associated Taxa: A Morphology Based Analysis Archived 2015-09-25 at the Wayback Machine (PDF)
Indian pangolin in Gir forest, Gujarat An early illustration of the "alungu" from Tharangambadi, 1768. The Indian pangolin is a solitary, shy, slow-moving, nocturnal mammal. [3] It is about 84–122 cm (33–48 in) long from head to tail, the tail usually being 33–47 cm (13–19 in) long, and weighs 10–16 kg (22–35 lb).
Manidae species of different genera; from top-left, clockwise: ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis), Philippine pangolin (Manis culionensis), and Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) Pholidota is an order of placental mammals in the Pholidotamorpha clade. A member of this order is called a pholidotan or a pangolin.
The Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) is a pangolin native to the northern Indian subcontinent, northern parts of Southeast Asia and southern China.It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2014, as the wild population is estimated to have declined by more than 80% in three pangolin generations, equal to 21 years.
Nguyễn Văn Thái is a Vietnamese conservationist who works to protecting the Critically Endangered pangolin. [1] [2] In 2014, he founded Save Vietnam's Wildlife (SVW), an NGO that has rescued more than 2,125 wild animals from 45 species, including 1,671 pangolins, and rehabilitated and returned over 60% of them back to the wild.
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These so-named Pangolin Population and Habitat Viability Assessment (PHVA) workshops aimed to solidify conservation strategies and methods of prolonging Taiwanese pangolin survival. In the 2017 PHVA workshop, an elaborate 10-year plan named "the 2017-2027 National Conservation Strategy and Action Plan" was developed in order to achieve their ...