Due to their specialised diet of ants and termites, pangolins are notoriously difficult to care for. At first, our keepers tried to emulate the anteater diet – a porridge made from fruits, meat and mealworms.
As pangolins have no teeth, the tendons had to be removed from the meat before it was blended. Later, ground-up termite mounds were added. Most recently, the keepers have substituted the meat with ant eggs. Our pangolins are positively lapping this up.