Pangolin Specialist Group
      

 

 
 

 

 

 

Seven species of pangolins are included in the single family Manidae, confined to the warmer parts of Asian and of the Africa south of Sahara. Hunting and habitat destruction have made these strangely scaled mammals one of the most endangered groups in the world.



      Pangolin Specialist Group
 

Captive breeding or artificial propagation :

The information from "Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora"  CITES 2000  emphasize that:  Pangolins are difficult to maintain and are rarely kept in captivity (Wilson 1994), mainly due to their specialized diet (Roberts 1977). Longevity of captive pangolins can be as long as 20 years, although most captive pangolins die within 3 years in captivity.  A total of 8 captive births of M. javanica(ISIS National Zoological Park, Washington DC), M. crassicaudata (Ogilvie and Bridgewater 1967) and M. pentadactyla (Masui 1967, Chao et al. 1993) has been reported.  Guo et al. (1997) reported that 50 M. pentadactyla were kept on a farm in an unspecified province in China.

However, information from the Chinese CITES Management Authority indicated that there are no registered captive breeding facilities for pangolins in China, and that reports of captive breeding of pangolins are likely to refer to individuals taken from the wild (TRAFFIC East Asia in litt. 1999).

The staffs collected ants to feed Formosan pangolin.

The young Formosan pangolin was bone in Taipei zoo.
It was one of the successful captive breeding have been recorded
in Taipei Zoo ever since.

A artificial cave for pangolin use in Taipei zoo.

Pangolin cage in Taipei zoo.

Source:
1. Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora amendments to appendices I and II of CITES , Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Nairobi Kenya, 2000.
2. Taipei zoo unpublished information.