Show Ant Eater Rolls I I Up in Its Tail In a a. collection of ot strange animals brought from the wilds wilds' of Central Africa for tor the London Zoological society is an extraordinarily long- long tailed ant eater called caned pangolin that rolls roUs up in its tall tail like a a. ball baU whenever an enemy approaches This animal is covered front from head to tip of ot tall tail with hard scales made up of ot closely woven hairs haIrs' all tightly joined together These scales serve as stiff armor which when the pangolin pangolin pan pan- pangolin golin rolls itself into a a. ball covers all exposed parts of the he body While the animal is In the form torm of ot a ball it Is is 15 able abie to roll Itself along the ground and thus move away from the scene of ot danger Of 01 the several species of ot pangolin pangolin lin all have the long sticky tongue of ot the ant eater They are Usually from one to three feet teet long The pangolin has no teeth instead the mouth contains a bony structure that extends Into the t throat roat I |