5.4K views · 129 reactions | If you've never seen a video of a pangolin or watched the hypnotic way they move, here's your chance. These gentle, unusual mammals are facing problems: they are trafficked for their scales, and to breed. But now a group of committed individuals are helping rescue pangolins and restore them to the wild. See the June issue of National Geographic Magazine for their story: https://on.natgeo.com/2KETgX9 | National Geographic UK | Facebook

Meet the world’s only truly scaly mammal, the beautiful Pangolin. Pangolins have a flexible armour of overlapping scales made of keratin, the very same material as our fingernails. They’re equipped with powerful claws used to dig out prey and a tongue, sometimes as long as their body, to slurp up tasty termites and ants. A pangolin can consume as many as 20,000 ants in a single day! ‘Pangolin’ comes from the Malay word for ‘roller’. When threatened, it lives up to its name by rolling into a defe

277K views · 9.8K reactions | Pangolin Facts Narrated by Aubrey Topola | Topola Nature and Wildlife | Facebook