pangolin
- n toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
- Walker identified it as a pangolin, a rare, highly-specialized, prehensile-tailed mam mal which eats ants and termites.
- A typical victim: the pangolin, a cute-as-a-button mammal, rather like an anteater, that is on the endangered list in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand but has been winding up in .
- The best loot is hidden in the back, past the seahorse skeletons and powdered pangolin.