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A graphic artist living in Germany works from home. His wife leaves their baby girl with him each day as she goes off to work. A few months ago, he got tired of her constantly texting him to check on how he was doing with the baby. So, he started photoshoping responses to text back to her, and they have become a worldwide Instagram sensation.
Here are a few of them:
Another clever Dad.
The most trafficked mammal on Earth.
And most people have never heard of it.
This is the pangolin, a creature covered in keratin scales, the same material as your fingernails, arranged in overlapping armor that no predator can bite through.
When threatened, it curls into a perfect ball. Lions have been filmed pawing at pangolins for hours, unable to find a single gap. The scales are so tightly locked that even hyena jaws cannot crack them open.
But this defense only works against animals. Pangolins cannot run. They cannot fight.They cannot uncurl fast enough to escape humans. And so they are hunted. Millions of them. Their scales are ground into powder and sold for traditional medicine across Asia, despite having no proven medicinal value. Their meat is considered a luxury.
All eight species are now threatened with extinction.
The pangolin evolved for 80 million years. It survived dinosaurs, ice ages, and countless predators. Its armor is one of nature's most perfect designs. But it never evolved a defense against demand.
Some creatures disappear because their habitat shrinks.
This one is disappearing because people believe crushing its body will cure things it cannot cure.
The most trafficked.
The most armored.
The most helpless.
Just because ...
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