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Giant pangolin (Smutsia gigantea)🦔

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SpeciesPholidotaManidae
Mammals

🦔Giant pangolin

Smutsia gigantea (Illiger, 1815)

Гига́нтский я́щер, или гигантский панголин (лат. Manis gigantea), — вид плацентарных млекопитающих из отряда панголинов (Pholidota). Один из четырёх видов ящеров, обитающих в Африке, где распространён вдоль экватора от Западной Африки до Уганды.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
47
Photos
6
Measurements
10
vs you
≈ half your weight
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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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
1.01 mestimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
4.57 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Generation length
5 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.1 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
133 daysestimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Litter size
1estimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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.

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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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