{"id":13822,"date":"2012-05-18T12:08:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=13822"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:52:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:52:19","slug":"pangolin-armour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/pangolin-armour\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangolin Armour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Pangolins have strong claws, they don&#8217;t have any teeth and they aren&#8217;t very fast, which leaves them potentially vulnerable to predators. That&#8217;s why Pangolins use their outer shell as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/top-10\/top-ten-strangest-animal-survival-strategies\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>protection<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13844\" title=\"pangolin_unrolled\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/pangolin_unrolled.jpg\" alt=\"pangolin unrolled\" width=\"588\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/pangolin_unrolled.jpg 725w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/pangolin_unrolled-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/pangolin_unrolled-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/pangolin_unrolled-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Pangolins have strong, spiky scales that form <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/our-faves\/rare-and-newly-discovered-species-with-armour\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>armour<\/strong><\/a> around their bodies. If they sense any danger, they roll up into a ball that is nearly impossible to unroll by force.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13845\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13845\" title=\"ball_pangolin_lions_sandip_kumar\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball_pangolin_lions_sandip_kumar.jpg\" alt=\"pangolin ball\" width=\"575\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball_pangolin_lions_sandip_kumar.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball_pangolin_lions_sandip_kumar-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball_pangolin_lions_sandip_kumar-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pangolin defending itself against lions. Photo Credit: Sandip Kumar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/eol.org\/pages\/12999\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eol.org\/pages\/12999\/overview<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick! How do you defend yourself from an attack when you are a slow moving, toothless animal? Well, ask a pangolin. It knows what to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[440,131,442,81,441],"class_list":{"0":"post-13822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-armour","11":"tag-mammal","12":"tag-pangolin","13":"tag-protection","14":"tag-scales"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}