Pangolin
Alien Earthlings

Key Characteristics & Behavior

• Diet: They are specialized insectivores, using a sticky tongue that can be longer than their body to eat up to 70 million ants and termites a year.

• Defense: When threatened, a pangolin rolls into a tight, near-impenetrable ball, protecting its soft underbelly.

• Lifestyle: Most species are nocturnal and solitary, living in either deep underground burrows or hollow trees depending on whether they are ground-dwelling or arboreal.

• Reproduction: Females typically give birth to a single "pangopup" once a year. The young hitch a ride on their mother's tail for the first few months.