Abstract
Official journal of the Taprobanica Private Limited, Homagama, Sri Lanka and Research Centre for Climate Change, University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia.Taprobanica is no longer accepting submissions on SLJOL. To submit your manuscript, please go to http://taprobanica.org/
Highlights
A total of 26 mounting events without intromission and a single copulation event that included intromission were observed
During copulation the male mounted the female from the side, entwining her with his hind parts under hers
This is very similar to our own observations
Summary
The Indian pangolin, Manis crassicaudata is under serious threat due to hunting for local consumption and for international trade in skins, scales and meat, and to a lesser extent, loss and deterioration of its habitat (Mishra & Panda, 2012; Baillie et al, 2014). This species is listed as „Endangered‟ (Baillie et al, 2014) and included under Appendix II of CITES. On 23 and 25 February, 2014 a male (Microchip ID–98102058378) and a female (Microchip ID– 00074D5A63) in adjacent enclosures were found interacting with each other Those interactions included; standing or lying near chain-link mesh, looking at and smelling each other, and squirting urine. The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded inside the enclosure were 33.3 °C and 22.1 °C respectively
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