🦔Giant pangolin
The giant pangolin is a species of pangolin from genus Smutsia of subfamily Smutsiinae within the family Manidae. It is the largest living species of pangolins. Members of the species inhabit Africa with a range stretching along the equator from West Africa to Uganda. It subsists almost entirely on ants and termites.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 33 kg
- Body length
- 1.01 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 4.57 years
Everything we know about the Giant pangolin
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass33 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1.01 mestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan4.57 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length5 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.1 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation133 daysestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1estimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l33 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Giant pangolin yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPholidota
- ›familyManidae
- ›genusManis
- ›speciesManis gigantea
Lineage not available yet.
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