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Перевод: pangolin

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ящер [зоол.]

Тезаурус:

1. Lele men who have produced sons and daughters are allowed to join the pangolin club, whose rituals concentrate upon fertility and success in hunting.
2. So far as ants are concerned, a single pangolin can eat up to 73 million of them, or termites, in 1 year, while ant eaters on Barro Colorado Island attack termite and Azteca ant nests; of arboreal nests, 91% of the termite ones and 37% of Azteca nests are attacked each year.
3. The pangolin or scaly ant-eater, an animal rather like a hedgehog with a tail, is ritually dangerous to Lele women; but it is also the object of a male cult (notice again the sexual axis).
4. Rolling into a hard, scaly ball is a device employed by a variety of armoured animals, including the pangolin from Africa and Asia (top), the three-banded armadillo from South America, and the giant pill millipede from Madagascar (right).
5. Why is the pangolin dangerous to women, and why is it associated with a male fertility cult?
6. The Old World anteaters include various species of pangolin in Africa and Asia, ranging from tree-climbing forms to digging forms, all looking a bit like fircones with pointed snouts.
7. Hence the pangolin suggests a link between animal and human kind.
8. All this is very abstract, so let us take a specific example by considering the significance of the pangolin for the Lele.
9. The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma: it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours.
10. The Pangolin foundry was commissioned to cast the 4 tons of bronze by sculptor David Lomax, who visited Africa to study his model in the wild.