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- Pangolin
Order of mammals
The shy, harmless pangolin is becoming increasingly well known for one reason: It’s believed to be the world’s most trafficked non-human mammal. Tens of thousands of pangolins are poached every year, killed for their scales for use in traditional Chinese medicine and for their meat, a delicacy among some ultra-wealthy in China and Vietnam. nationalgeographic.com
- Mammal
- Insectivore
- Unknown
- 45 in to 4.5 ft (114 cm to 1.4 m) long
- 4 to 72 lbs (1.8 to 33 kg)
- An estimated one million pangolins are believed to have been smuggled from 2000 to 2013, making them the world's most trafficked animals.
