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The Indian pangolin, thick-tailed pangolin, or scaly anteater (Manis crassicaudata) is a pangolin found on the Indian subcontinent. It is not common anywhere in its range. Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body which act as armour. It can also curl itself into a ball as self-defence against predators such as the tiger. The colour of its scales varies depending on the colour of the earth in its surroundings.
It is an insectivore, feeding on ants and termites, digging them out of mounds and logs using its long claws, which are as long as its fore limbs. It is nocturnal and rests in deep burrows during the day.
The Indian pangolin is threatened by hunting for its meat and for various body parts used in traditional medicine.
The Indian pangolin is a solitary, shy, slow-moving, nocturnal mammal. It is about 84ā122 centimetres (33ā48 in) long from head to tail, the tail usually being 33ā47 cm long, and weighs 10ā16 kg. Females are generally smaller than the males and have one pair of mammae. The pangolin possesses a cone-shaped head with small, dark eyes, and a long muzzle with a nose pad similar in color, or darker than, its pinkish-brown skin. It has powerful limbs, tipped with sharp, clawed digits. It is an almost exclusive insectivore and principally subsists on ants and termites, which it catches with a specially adapted long, sticky tongue.The pangolin has no teeth, but has strong stomach muscles to aid in digestion. The most noticeable characteristic of the pangolin is its massive, scaled armour, which covers its upper face and its whole body with the exception of the belly and the inside of the legs. These protective scales are rigid and made of keratin. It has 160ā200 scales in total, about 40ā46% of which are located on the tail. Scales can be 6.5ā7 cm long, 8.5 cm wide, and weigh 7ā10 grams. The skin and scales make up about one-fourth to one-third of the total body mass of this species.
The Indian pangolin has been recorded from various forest types, including Sri Lankan rainforest and plains to middle hill levels. The animal can be found in grasslands and secondary forests, and is well adapted to desert regions as it is believed to have a tolerance to dry areas, but prefers more barren, hilly regions. This pangolin species may also sometimes reach high elevations, and has been sighted in Sri Lanka at 1100 meters and in the Nilgiri mountains in India at 2300 meters. It prefers soft and semi-sandy soil conditions suitable for digging burrows.
Pangolin burrows fall into one of two categories: feeding and living burrows. Feeding burrows are smaller than living burrows (though their sizes vary depending on the abundance of prey) and are created more frequently during the spring, when there is a greater availability of prey. Living burrows are wider, deeper, and more circular, and are occupied for a longer time than feeding burrows, as they are mainly used to sleep and rest during the day. After a few months, the pangolin abandons the burrow and digs a new one close to a food source. However, it is not uncommon for the pangolin to shift back to an old burrow.
Unlike its African counterpart, the Indian pangolin does not climb trees, but it does value the presence of trees, herbs, and shrubs in its habitat because it is easier to dig burrows around them. Features that promote an abundance of ants and termites (grasses, bare grounds, bases of trees, shrubs, roots, leaf litter, fallen logs and elephant feces) are often present in pangolin habitats.
Few details are known about the breeding behaviour of the Indian pangolin. During the animal's mating period, females and males may share the same burrow and show some diurnal activities. Males have testes in a fold of the skin located in their groin areas. The female's embryo develops in one of the uterine horns. The gestation period lasts 65ā70 days; the placenta is diffuse and not deciduate. Usually, a single young is born, but twins have been reported in this species. The young weigh 235ā400 g at birth and measure roughly 30 cm. The newborn animals have open eyes, and soft scales with protruding hairs between them. The mother pangolin carries her young on her tail. When the mother and young are disturbed, the young pangolin is held against its mother's belly and protected by the mother's tail.
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Macro Mondays: "Award"
A trophy from the 1990s. Pulled it out of an old box. I played a lot of racquetball while I was attending university.
The image is about 6.35 cm (2.5 inches) on the long edge.
I got the small baseball tropy in the foreground when I was 12. When I was 17 I got the larger trophy you see in the background.
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The trophy room at the Driehaus Museum.
The most dramatic intervention to the interior of the Nickerson House was made during the Fisher period of occupancy. In 1900ā1901, Lucius Fisher engaged architect George Washington Maher (1864ā1926) to redesign the Nickerson Art Gallery at the northwest corner of the main floor. Fisher re-envisioned the space as a Trophy Room to display his collection of game animals, weaponry, and rare books. The crowning achievement of Maherās new decorative scheme was the installation of a striking stained glass dome that replaced the original Nickerson period clear glass skylight.
The stained glass dome design depicts four trees, the trunks of which arch towards the oculus of the dome, while their leaves, rendered in autumnal colored drapery glass, form a canopy against a turquoise sky. Each lay-light panel features a central area of green and white striated glass, framed by a band of drapery glass leaves, in turn framed by a border of emerald green drapery glass.
A healthy young buck stands alert as he watches for obvious danger. In a month the first of the deer hunting seasons begin and the dangers will be a lot higher and come from further distances away.
One aspect of wildlife photography I did not anticipate is how attached you can become to animals that you have seen develop from birth. This proud fellow is not aware that he will soon become someone's fall trophy.
(Photographed near Cambridge, Minnesota)
Glover Trophy - a 25 minute race for 1.5 litre Grand Prix cars which were raced between 1961 and 1965.
A 1964 BRM P261 raced by Philipp Buhofer.
He tried but failed to swallow that big fish down his long slender neck..
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A Macro Mondays submission on the topic "Award". This is a trophy awarded to my late father in the early 1940s for a boxing tournament, not long after he joined the Royal Australian Air Force.
Trophy for the Bounty Hunter Spaceship category of the 2020 Space Jam, Lego sci-fi building contest.
This trophy is meant to be a microscale version of Tyler's classic bounty hunter ship: www.flickr.com/photos/legohaulic/6299491958/
A Last look at my aviation photography trophy before it goes back. For the winning photo "Do Not Start!" see www.flickr.com/photos/127504183@N04/22890429641/in/datepo...
The Royal Liver Building (pronounced: "lie-ver") is a Grade I listed building located in Liverpool, England. It is sited at the Pier Head and, along with the neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building, is one of Liverpool's Three Graces, which line the city's waterfront. It is also part of Liverpool's UNESCO designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City.
Today the Royal Liver Building is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the city of Liverpool and is home to two fabled Liver Birds (can be seen clearly in this picture) that watch over the city and the sea. Legend has it that were these two birds to fly away, then the city would cease to exist.
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Trophy Room can be found in Wayne Manor on the Gotham inspired sim properly named Furillen City
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