And my favorite: Pangolins rolling up into scale-covered balls to protect themselves from lions and tigers, which just bat at them, seemingly confused. Pangolins, it turns out, are pretty much ...

On a private game reserve in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, an unlikely creature is making a tentative comeback — and visitors are offered a glimpse into the conservation efforts to save it ...

When a pangolin mother is afraid, she rolls into a ball, protecting her soft, peach-fuzz belly and her baby with the armor of her scales. It’s good defense against a lion, but it’s about the ...

Pangolins are primarily nocturnal, and when frightened, they curl into a tight ball, exposing the sharp edges of their scales to any would-be predators — a defense effective even against large cats ...

In Taiwan, a Formosan pangolin travels through a land of giants, including a bamboo forest alight with fireflies and an olive plantation, to discover a protected forest and a mate. His species is ...

Read the following text, and answer questions 1-9 below: [1] Pangolins include eight species of the Manidae family. They are distributed across Africa and Asia and are all used to an exclusive ...