kqedscience: Eaten to extinction: ”If you crossed an anteater with a carp, you might get something similar to a pangolin. Thai custom agents at a checkpoint in Chumporn seized 138 of the endangered animals hidden in a truck. Officials said they were being smuggled out of the country to be sold and eaten. In China, pangolin is a regarded as both a delicacy and the source of several purported “cures.” Often the animal suffers a slow, painful death before it’s boiled and its “medicinal” scales removed.” Photo: Apichart Weerawong / Associated Press Great population growth comes horrific destruction. Maybe they can make a conservation zoo program, call it “education,” and charge a fee. HIGH RES

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Eaten to extinction: ”If you crossed an anteater with a carp, you might get something similar to a pangolin. Thai custom agents at a checkpoint in Chumporn seized 138 of the endangered animals hidden in a truck. Officials said they were being smuggled out of the country to be sold and eaten. In China, pangolin is a regarded as both a delicacy and the source of several purported “cures.” Often the animal suffers a slow, painful death before it’s boiled and its “medicinal” scales removed.”

Photo: Apichart Weerawong / Associated Press

Great population growth comes horrific destruction. Maybe they can make a conservation zoo program, call it “education,” and charge a fee.

#reality  #china  #Population Growth  #endangered species  #pangolin  #medicine  
∞  05/29/12 at 08:53pm via sfgate.com
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