Giant pangolin (Smutsia gigantea)🦔

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SpeciesPholidotaManidae
Mammals

🦔Giant pangolin

Smutsia gigantea (Illiger, 1815)

큰천산갑(Smutsia gigantea)은 유린목에 속하는 포유류의 일종이다. 서아프리카에서 우간다에 이르는 적도 근처의 아프리카에 분포한다. 천산갑 중에서 가장 크다. 거의 전적으로 개미와 흰개미를 먹고 산다. 1815년, 일리거(Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger)가 처음 기술하였다.

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Also called
Smutsia gigantea, Giant ground pangolin, Giant Ground Pangolin
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Giant pangolin

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
33 kg
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Body length
1.01 mestimated
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Maximum lifespan
4.57 years
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Generation length
5 years
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Age at maturity
2.1 years
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Gestation
133 daysestimated
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Litter size
1estimated
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Volume l
33 Laverage
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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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPholidota
  5. ›familyManidae
  6. ›genusManis
  7. ›speciesManis gigantea
Full lineage

Lineage not available yet.

More

More about the Giant pangolin

Closest relative on this site
🐾 Aardwolf — last shared an ancestor ≈ 60 million years ago.
What it eats
insects and other invertebrates100%
In other languages
Smutsia gigantea (es), Smutsia gigantea (fr), Kjempeskjelldyr (nb), Smutsia gigantea (bg), Riesenschuppentier (de), Smutsia gigantea (it) … and 22 more languages

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