Crossword-Solution: PANGOLINS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

These classes, however, have never been very large, and consist of two small families; the pangolins and the armadillos.

The armadillo has an armour of quite another kind, notwithstanding the fact that pangolins and armadillos belong to the same great family, and each eats ants.

Again, those remarkable scaly ant-eaters of the Old World--the pangolins (Manis)--stand alone amongst mammals as regards their dermal covering; having been classed {175} with lizards by early naturalists on account of their clothing of scales, yet their mouth is like that of the hairy ant-eaters of the New World.

The pangolins possess, in common with the armadilloes, the power of rolling themselves into a ball whenever attacked by an enemy--a fashion not peculiar to pangolins and armadilloes, but also practised by our own well-known hedgehog.

What chance would a few sheep, rabbits and squirrels, rats and mice, doves and chickens, have, among this ravenous multitude? How could the ants escape, with ant-eaters, aard-varks and pangolins on the watch for them as soon as they made their appearance? There were as many dogs as hares, as many cats as mice.