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Chinese pangolin
March 22, 2026
|The Observer
I live in the shadow of death.
So do we all, and I’m in no moral position to complain: after all, I'm responsible for 70m deaths a year. A rational creature like me has to accept that being killed to become a meal is all in a day's work. What I can’t accept is that I'm more likely to die for a delusional fantasy.
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A pangolin’s pride is the scale. I am defined by 18 rows of overlapping plates. I'm a walking fir cone, and when I curl up tight nothing can get me. We come in eight species across Africa and Asia and we revel in the unique nature of our order.
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