Peekaboo pangolin

• Autores: Rowan Hooper
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3162, 2018, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • They have been called the most hunted animal in the world, so perhaps you can't blame this pangolin for hiding its face. Temminck's ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii) is found across a vast swathe of eastern and southern Africa. It has no teeth--pangolins are Africa's ecological answer to anteaters, tearing into termite mounds and pulling out insects with their sticky tongues, as this one is doing in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Its tools are tough claws that it curls under its arms when it walks. The IUCN Red List of endangered species classifies Temminck's ground pangolin as vulnerable to extinction, and projects a decline in population size of between 30 and 40 per cent in the next few decades.