| Chinese Pangolin | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pholidota |
| Family: | Manidae |
| Genus: | Manis |
| Species: | M. pentadactyla |
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| Manis pentadactyla Linnaeus, 1758 |
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The Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) is a pangolin that is found in north India, Nepal, Bhutan, possibly Bangladesh, across Myanmar to northern Indochina, through most of Taiwan and the southern China, including the islands of Hainan.
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Conservation
In Hong Kong, it is a protected species under the Wild Animals Protection Ordinance Cap 170.
"The Critter"
The Chinese Pangolin is probably "The Critter", one of the pets of the Raven FACs at their secret base in Long Tieng during the covert war in Laos. It was described as a foot-long "prehistoric" beast, covered in armor plating with a long tail and a pointed nose, a "cross between a sloth and an armadillo", by the US pilots.
After its accidental death, the Critter's body was preserved in an empty one gallon mayonnaise jar filled with alcohol. A picture was taken of the preserved animal and sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, as well as to the Natural History department of La Sorbonne in Paris, but no positive reply was forthcoming. For a long time nobody knew what kind of animal it was until one of the pilots stationed in Laos happened to see the animal on a Laotian postage stamp, part of a stamp series on indigenous animals from Laos, under the name "Panis Auritas".[2]
See also
References
- ^ Duckworth, J.W., Steinmitz, R., Anak Pattanavibool, Than Zaw, Do Tuoc & Newton, P. (2008). Manis pentadactyla. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2008-10-16.
- ^ Christopher Robbins, The Ravens: Pilots of the Secret War in Laos. Asia Books 2000.
External links
- ADW entry
- Jung-Tai Chao. General Status of Formosan Pangolin Manis pentadactyla pentadactyla
- Cryptozoology - The Critter
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