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- noun Plural form of
pangolin .
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Examples
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Today the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute has a project to tag pangolins in order to track their movements and better understand the habits of this secretive mammal.
Archive 2008-06-01 Michael Turton 2008
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Khairiah said the smuggling of exotic animals such as pangolins, clouded monitor lizards, owls, porcupines and pythons would usually rise at year-end.
nst online 2009
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Almost 100 pangolins, which are highly prized for their meat and supposed medicinal properties, were seized by authorities the day before.
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One raid on a restaurant in Guanghzou in 2008 turned up 118 pangolins, 60 kilograms of snakes, and 400 kilograms of toads.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Crushed inside 200 cages on this 25-meter craft were 31 pangolins, 44 leatherback turtles, 2,720 monitor lizards, and 1,130 Brazilian turtles.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Experts found 11 types of bushmeat including monkeys, large rats, crocodiles, small antelopes and pangolins, or anteaters.
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One raid on a restaurant in Guanghzou in 2008 turned up 118 pangolins, 60 kilograms of snakes, and 400 kilograms of toads.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Or the lactose intolerants and their connections deep into history, back through monkeys and lemurs and pangolins and platypuses.
43 Reasons to Mock Intelligent Design Steve Carper 2008
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Crushed inside 200 cages on this 25-meter craft were 31 pangolins, 44 leatherback turtles, 2,720 monitor lizards, and 1,130 Brazilian turtles.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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If you can't find enough anteater cakes, it's OK to include aardvarks, pangolins, and echidnas.
Hungry Like a Wolf 2010
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