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Today is World Pangolin Day. Have you heard of these amazing creatures before? If you haven't please read up and learn some more. They are truly fascinating and unique and really need our help. So many people have not even heard of them and they could be lost to our world before more people do.
Sadly, like so many other wonderful animals, they are being wiped out for no real purpose unless you consider making clothes from their skins and scales or eating them in soups as a good thing.
Here a few facts about pangolins to whet your appetite -
Pangolins are the only mammals in the world covered in scales
A pangolin’s tongue can be longer than its body
Even big cats don't know what to do with them
They emit a noxious acid like skunks
The name means 'something that rolls up'
Millions have been traded and killed in the last decade
Dating can be difficult
Nobody knows how long they live
If that gets you interested, and I hope it does, here are some links for more information.
Let's be part of the solution, not the problem. Help this little guy by posting links, info, photos etc, and donate to help if you can. There is no other creature like this that I am aware of, it would be so wrong to have him go extinct simply because not enough people know he exists.
Born Free Foundation
@BFFoundation
Nobody knows how long they actually live for - with estimates up to 20 years.
