I always thought they were cute, but I cannot imagine having a domesticated one. You can't pet it, it won't exactly jump up and give you kisses when you get home from work, and the claws can tear through anything- it would be worse than trying to keep a goat.
No doubt some old creep somewhere wants to smoke it's scales or something as a cure for inconvenient limpness.
Pangolins are awesome. Truly fascinating evolutionary organisms. They essentially fill the role true anteaters (from South America) do, only they do it in Africa, India, and southeast Asia.
That'll be some drooling maniac in China (or possibly Taiwan) ordering them; in their eyes the rarer, more exotic and more expensive the animal, the better.
I always thought they were cute, but I cannot imagine having a domesticated one. You can't pet it, it won't exactly jump up and give you kisses when you get home from work, and the claws can tear through anything- it would be worse than trying to keep a goat.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt some old creep somewhere wants to smoke it's scales or something as a cure for inconvenient limpness.
Don't tell me you expected something different...
ReplyDeleteOg, I suspect those pangolins were destined to the local Chinese Apothecary, rather than a pet shop....
ReplyDeletePangolins are awesome. Truly fascinating evolutionary organisms. They essentially fill the role true anteaters (from South America) do, only they do it in Africa, India, and southeast Asia.
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That'll be some drooling maniac in China (or possibly Taiwan) ordering them; in their eyes the rarer, more exotic and more expensive the animal, the better.
ReplyDeletePO-PO: Why do you have 49 pangolins in your ambulance?
ReplyDeletePerp: Personal use, but I can quit anytime.
Gerry
The armadillo from Jeff Goldstein's Proteinwisdom.com blog is probably hiding under a sofa in fear of kidnapping right now.
ReplyDeleteI could have done without the sidebar picture of the .5kg Hairball from some 12 year old girl's stomach, thankyouverymuch.
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