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We once saw one north of Timbavati picnic spot, near Roodewal camp turnoff - we left Olifants when the gates opened at 5am, so it was probably about 6am when we saw it. It wasn't concerned about our presence and kept walking on the edge of the road for about a minute before it dissappeared into the grass. On video.

That is really nice. Is it true that they are endangered?

Yes , they are .
They are killed for there scales , and these are sold on the eastern markets for some or other stupid reason .

Seen 1 , in an unmentionable reseve in the northwest province.

Thanks.
Their meat is considered a delacacy in some areas.

I have been to a lot of parks in my life.And I have never seen one.Not even in the Zoo.Can anyone tell me where in the KNP have they seen them and at what time about(Early morning,during day or at night)

If you see a pangolin, keep it there and ring me! The only one I have ever seen is standing quite still an a rockery in the arboretum at Kirstenbosch!

I saw a pangolin about 10 years ago in KNP - a quick sighting in a dry river bed near Letaba.

But more interesting, when I was in KNP 2005 I got chatting to some tourists, and they showed me their camcorder recording of a pangolin they'd seen the day before on the Satara-Orpen road late afternoon - this 'anteater' as they referred to it was digging for food right near the road for more than 15 mins.
The footage was incredible, truly a once-in-a-lifetime sighting!!!

It would be interesting to know whether their scales are important to Sangomas.
.. not that Sangomas would have much of an influence on the scarcity.

In my last J'burg/CT/Grahamstown trip, I passed so many road kill sites, (sadly a bad thing to see ). I did wonder how many were our lovely, silent, voiceless creatures.

Does anyone happen to know what the name manis means? (manis being the genus of the pangolin) Or even what language the name comes from? My class is making a field guide, and we need the etymology of the pangolin's scientific name.

Google is your friend Welcome BTW, great username

Ma"nis\, n. [NL., fr. L. manes the ghosts or shades of the dead. So called from its dismal appearance, and because it seeks for its food by night.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants.

Thank you!

My question is, what did you search? Because whenever I searched the word manis or etymology of manis, the search engine always separated manis into 'man is'.

I'm not doing your homework for you am I?

I searched "manis latin" because I believe any genus name is derived from the Latin. Jeanus will know I hit this site

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Manis?r=14

I have to admit that until someone spotted one on the webcam, I'd never heard of the thing. Now I'm determined to see one.

Well, you're not doing all my homework for me- that was only a small bit of a project my class is doing. But it was also the only one of the bits of my field guide entry that I couldn't find.

So thank you again!

Go, teachers!

BTW, rayb, that webcam sighting was inconclusive!

Webcam = Leopard Tortios