So I didn't get to see the umpteen varieties of lizards, snakes, flying lemur or pangolin, which are reputed to haunt the forests. |
Analysis of these fossils showed the ancient creature to be a small mammal, possibly distantly related to the modern scaly anteater known as the pangolin. |
In their belts they carried several knives, while the musket and the little round cap of pangolin skin completed their equipment. |
The tail vertebrae vary in number from none in the bat to 49 in the pangolin. |
The soft stomach is one reason a pangolin has hard scales covering its body. |
They are home to many smaller wildlife like jackals, hares, snakes, wild boar, pangolin and countless species of birds. |