Nutrition and behaviour of captive Sunda pangolins, Manis javanica.

• Main Author: Mazrina Abdul Malik.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Zoology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16692
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In 2005, the Night Safari (NS) started a captive management program of rescued pangolins, with the long-term goal of captive breeding for conservation purposes. Pangolins are myrmecophagous mammals with a highly specialised diet of ants and termites and it is therefore difficult to provide them with...