The Pangolin can live in parts of Asia and the Sub Saharan Africa. They are losing their habitat mostly because of human activity. Humans are taking down the trees in the forest to clear the paths for roads, mining, logging, and cardamom plantations.” In southeast Asia only about 5% of the original forest is intact”(Hays factsanddetails.com).It may also be that the human population is increasing tremendously.
It is threatened mostly because they are being hunted by humans for their delicious meat and the treating medicine. The scales on a Pangolin have ingredients in them “To cure diseases ranging from asthma and cancer to improve blood circulation” (Hays factsanddetails.com). This creature is being traded throughout the planet by the people in Southeast Asia. They are often force fed starches to gain weight, but which could also kill the animal. About a million Pangolins have been killed in the past decade and ended up in cooking pots. …show more content…
Most Pangolins can only have one child at a time except the Asian Pangolin which can have two to three.By the second day of being alive there scales begin to harden so they wouldn’t die from other animals. “The mother will nurture her young one in a nesting burrow and roll around the baby protectively when sleeping or threatened”(Benedetti Savepangolins.com). After a couple of months the child will be able to ride on the mother’s tail while scrimmaging through insects. When the pangolin is born they carry a skunk like smell so that no other animal would come near