No really, they’re not. Their scales are touted as a cure for everything from cancer or acne, to poor lactation in mothers. And their meat is considered a delicacy in China and Vietnam. Martin Fletcher went to a restaurant where they offered to bring a live pangolin to his table, slit its throat and serve the blood - apparently an aphrodisiac. All that before steaming the meat and chopping up the tongue for soup. Already there are no pangolins left in great swathes of South East Asia, so Africa's populations are now being plundered.
The world's most-trafficked mammal - and the scaliestThere’s a long list of regulations for your passport photo, including a "no smiling" rule. It didn’t used to be this way.Once upon a time, you could pose wherever you like - something the Archbishop of Canterbury Randall Davidson took full advantage of:
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