Full disclosure: I had set up a post about orangutans, but then saw yesterday was World Pangolin Day! I find these animals fascinating. Never knew about them until my son started watching ‘The Wild Kratts’ when he was around 4. I mean, I knew there were armored anteaters out there, but I didn’t know much more than that. So, I had to make a post about the pangolin even if it’s a day late. I mean, they’re on my list of animals to post about anyway. I promise the orangutans will be here in 2 weeks.
Pangolins are the most illegally trafficked animal in the world. For example, in 2019 it was found that 1,000,000 pangolins were trafficked over a 10-year period. That’s one trafficked pangolin every 3 minutes. That’s insane.
Also, keep in mind that trafficking is the only reason they’re endangered. They’re not suffering from a plague, losing their habitat, or being taken out by an overpopulation of predators. Well, that last one is kind of true because humans are the predators. Some countries believe pangolin meat is a delicacy and that their scale have medicinal properties. While the USA doesn’t do that, we do have a demand for their skins to use for leather products. Guess if it has scales, an American will try to make a boot, belt, and/or purse out of it.
Here’s a great site for more information: SAVE PANGOLINS!
Now for pictures of the 8 species. 4 are found in Africa and 4 are found in Asia. I couldn’t find population amounts, which worries me. All pictures found in a Yahoo Image Search.
AFRICAN SPECIES: BLACK-BELLIED PANGOLIN (ALSO CALLED THE LONG-TAILED PANGOLIN)
AFRICAN SPECIES: WHITE-BELLIED PANGOLIN
AFRICAN SPECIES: GIANT GROUND PANGOLIN
AFRICAN SPECIES: TEMMINCK’S GROUND PANGOLIN
ASIAN SPECIES: INDIAN PANGOLIN
ASIAN SPECIES: PHILIPPINE PANGOLIN
ASIAN SPECIES: SUNDA PANGOLIN
ASIAN SPECIES: CHINESE PANGOLIN
There’s all 8. Now for a cute video:
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Terrific post, Charles. You. were right, the video is cute.
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Thanks. 😁
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Such interesting creatures.
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They truly are.
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Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog.
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Thanks for sharing. 😊
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Thanks for a great post! I don’t remember seeing anything about pangolins in my lifetime. It is sad they are on the endangered species list because of us.
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You’re welcome. It is pretty sad and infuriating. So many animals are endangered because of humans too. Hard to find any endangered species that we’re not responsible for.
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Before we came on board the space ship Earth, 99% of everything that had ever lived was extinct. But that doesn’t excuse humans from increasing that number. 🙂
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Didn’t that first part take billions of years to accomplish? Humans have fast tracked the current extinction event somehow. Unless we’re the new asteroid.
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That’s the problem with people, we try to fast track everything.
I like that: Humans are the new asteroids.
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I didn’t realize pangolins were so cute. They’re very prehistoric-looking. Until a few years ago, I had never heard of a pangolin, much less that they were endangered. Glad there is more awareness now, so maybe we can keep them from going extinct.
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I hope we can keep them around. I think there are a lot of breeding and protection programs. I’ve heard people describe their walk like that of a T-Rex.
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Thanks for sharing.
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They are looking so cute. Let us save them, wherever we can. Thanks Charles! Best wishes, Michael
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You’re welcome. Enjoy your week.
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Thanks for this article on the beloved pangolin! We found out about them the same way you did, through the Wild Kratts. I thought your comment that humans are the new extinction asteroid was very well put.
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Thanks. 😊
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Wow. This is so cool.
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Thanks.
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