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muriel_volestrangler

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10. While the danger to pangolins is awful, it seem to be just you who is connecting it to the virus
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 08:05 PM
Feb 2020

and I'm not sure that's a good idea, unless there's real evidence. It would make it just as likely that people would simply kill them as leave them alone, if you convinced them.

But, in the spirit of loving these beautiful creatures, here's David Attenborough with an Asian one in a tree - in 1956:



and 2002 - an African one on the ground:



And 2018:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066wfqw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3gg0t
https://www.wowshack.com/sir-david-attenborough-gets-emotional-over-pangolin-he-saved-in-bali-in-1950s/
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