Pangolin is The Most Endanegerd Mammal of Illegal Trade in Wildlife
The plight of tigers, elephants, and rhinoceroses have all received a lot of attention in the press in recent years, as all have become increasingly threatened by the world wildlife trade. But the trade, which is worth something around $20 billion a year, involves far more species than just that trio. Strange birds, rare reptiles, exotic fish, and everything in between are all illegally harvested and traded worldwide. In fact, the most commonly trafficked mammal isn’t a tiger or rhino, but the pangolin, as discussed in a great, deep article by Monga Bay…
That unique looking back is due to it’s scales. Though the scales themselves are thought by followers of traditional medicine in Asia – and elsewhere – to have special medicinal properties, they do not. They made of the same thing as rhino horn and your fingernails -keratin. As far as can be estimated the illegal wildlife trade is responsible for removing thousands of pangolin from their native habitats.
World’s Weirdest : Pangolin
World’s largest crocodile in captivity, according to the Guinness World Records last year, dies in Philippines. While he was thought he was responsible for the death of at least one person, he became quite the tourist attract at a wildlife park. He weighed weighed in at 1,075kg (2,370lb) and was 6.4m (21ft) long. The curb weight of a 2013 Honda Civic is between 2740 and 2815 pounds.
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