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Pangolins, which are endangered and found through Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, are the most poached mammal in the world.

«These pangolins know in their hearts they're scaly soulmates,» Google (googl) said in a blog post.

Its Valentine's Google Doodle game involves a long - distance relationship between two pangolins, Wired reports.

Roly Poly, a pangolin, is shy and afraid of new things until he discovers that some new experiences are not bad at all.

Most people have not even heard of the world's most trafficked mammal, the humble and far from headline - grabbing pangolin.

These cover the parts and tissues of a whole host of threatened species, including African grey parrots, all species of pangolins, and Barbary macaques.

Despite previous logging and farming in the planted forests zone, more than 400 vertebrate species, including bears, civets, macaques, leopard cats, mongooses, pangolins, and porcupines, have been spotted there.

«In particular, we found a group called Laurasiatheria quickly increased their body size and ecological diversity, setting them on a path that would result in a modern group containing mammals as diverse as bats, cats, rhinos, whales, cows, pangolins, shrews and hedgehogs.»

DAKAR / LIBREVILLE (Reuters)- Alongside dirt roads twisting through the dense tropical forests of Gabon, the scaly bodies of lifeless long - snouted pangolins dangle from sticks stuck in the ground by hunters.

The pangolin, a mammal that looks like an anteater but has the tough scales of a crocodile, has long been prized in central Africa as a bushmeat delicacy.

«There is potential for it to become more industrial as people realize they can make money from pangolin scales, and we are starting to see this already with seizures of large volumes of scales,» said Dan Challender, who is doing his PhD research at the University of Kent in England on the pangolin trade and co-chairs a pangolin specialist group.

Neighboring Cameroon has also organized workshops for customs officials at air and sea ports to identify and seize pangolin shipments.

All eight of the world's species of pangolin, which range from 30 to 100 cm (12 to 39 in) length, are threatened with extinction.

But growing demand for it from Asia, where pangolin scales are used in Chinese medicine to help women lactate and to cure skin disorders, now threatens to hasten its demise and rob African countries of a precious resource.

Following the arrest of a dozen Chinese workers with pangolin scales last year, Gabon is working with researchers on an investigation into the growing exports.

«The pangolin is in great demand from our clients although it's rare to see it in the market,» said Madeleine Sah, owner of one of the restaurants.

«It's always been ivory but the new pressure is on the pangolin,» said Lee White, the British - born head of Gabon's national parks agency, which runs the 13 national parks covering just over a tenth of the country's territory.

Shy and near - sighted, pangolins only venture out from the safety of their burrows or tree - top homes at night to scour for insects.

But so far this year, more than 6 tonnes of African pangolin scales have been seized before export to Asia - more than the combined total of all previous seizures.

The example of Africa's elephants, whose numbers have been slashed by demand from Asia for their ivory, have prompted conservations to mobilize to protect the pangolins.

Beijing's ban on ivory is very welcome and could save the African elephant, but it must do the same for rhinos, pangolins and more, says Richard Schiffman

CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, has banned exports of all four Asian species since 2000; two, the Chinese pangolin and the Sunda pangolin, were listed as endangered in the IUCN's Red List in 2008, making all international trade in them or their parts illegal.

Soldier termites protect the mounds and produce a drumming noise to alert their mound - mates of an approaching aardvark or pangolin.

«Most of what we know about the trafficking of pangolins is from seizures, and it has always been recognised that this is probably the tip of the iceberg,» says Elizabeth John, a Traffic spokesperson in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

By contrast, local police seized only 654 illegally shipped pangolins between 2001 and 2008.

When their children are hungry and can not afford to go to school then saving pangolins seems much less of a priority to them.»

Yet Traffic reports that Chinese demand has made pangolins among the most common illegally traded wildlife in Asia, while shipments of African pangolins, until now spared this pressure, have recently been seized in China.

These include species such as the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica), the Bahia Tapaculo (Eleoscytalopus psychopompus), the Long - billed Black Cockatoo (Zanda baudinii) and Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii).

Some of the species that like edges are invasive like the boa constrictor, while the ones huddled into the deep forest are more likely to be threatened with extinction — like the Sunda pangolin.»

For example, some pangolin species may be approaching extinction in numerous areas due to hunting for medicinal products, but little is known about their remaining numbers [79].

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Thankfully, the baby pangolin was responsive to the intensive care offered by the vets and is now eating ants» eggs along with his diet of kitten milk replacer that he initially rejected.

During the session, visitors will be educated on the status of the Sunda pangolin in the wild and will get a chance to watch the creatures being fed in their exhibits.

In order to raise this four - month - old, the pangolin's diet had to be carefully thought out.

The Sunda pangolin is currently a critically endangered species.

The pangolin was found weak and hungry, wandering near Upper Thompson Road on 22 February this year.

There are a total of seven Sunda pangolins at the Night Safari in Singapore, two of which were raised by humans.

Pangolins are also excellent tree - climbers, which is why his enclosure now has a large tree branch for him to hone his climbing skills.

During these walks, the pangolin is taught to forage for food so that he can exercise his keen sense of smell and strong claws, which the animal uses to dig for ants.

You can find out more about Sandshrew and the pangolin exhibition at the Night Safari here.

She is a director for a non-profit called Global Conservation Force that helps many endangered species such as rhinos, elephants, giraffes and pangolins.

This show begins with Lori recognizing the Fifth Annual World Pangolin Day by broadcasting her 2015 interview with Jeffrey Flocken of International Fund for Animal Welfare.

The cute but vulnerable pangolin holds the unfortunate distinction of being the most heavily trafficked wild mammal in the world.

Pangolin Khwai Camp is located on the Khwai Private Reserve, a 500,000 - acre private concession bordering the Khwai River on the country's Okavango Delta....

At the world's top zoos, you'll run into familiar characters like elephants, polar bears, and walruses, as well as meet lesser - known species like the Thailand clouded leopard and the armadillo - like pangolin from Asia and Africa.

This will be after taking in Robins sculpture, and Gary Wraggs paintings in Deal.Great that there are two shows of British Abstract Painting and Sculpture on at the moment.With Bill Tucker at Pangolin and Sams cracking show of 60s colour in Liverpool, Abstraction is far from a dead issue.Indeed there is a symposium by Matthew Macauley at a northern university [to be confirmed] coming up, with requests for papers.Two very good painters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at Women can't Paint at Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy, think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the genre.!

Sculptors» Prints and Drawings, Pangolin's annual exhibition of works on paper by modern and contemporary sculptors.

Pangolin hope to push the boundaries of the traditional definition of drawing by incorporating collage, printmaking and computer - aided graphics as mediums that sculptors also use to oscillate between two and three dimensions.

Touted as the future of sculpture, Zachary Eastwood - Bloom has his first solo show on now at Pangolin London.

Alongside some superb clas - sical modern works by Magdalena Abakanowicz (Marlborough Fine Art), Sir Anthony Caro (Annely Juda Fine Art), Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (Pangolin), Sir Michael Craig - Martin (New Art Centre), and Tony Cragg (Holtermann Fine Art) are wonderful visceral, textural sculptures by Urs Fischer (Gago - sian), Tuakuro Kuwata (Alison Jacques Gallery) and an extraordinary white - enameled bronze tree by Ugo Rondinone (Sadie Coles HQ).