Another one in danger of extinction and surely you do not know it.

The peanut, popularly known as pangolin, is a surprising scaly animal, is little known, with this post I want to make it known to as many people, because it is at risk of extinction, and that the more people know a species more struggle to preserve it.

The pangolin is the most trafficked mammal. In Asia they believe that their scales are healing and their flesh gives power to those who eat them. In the last decade, 1 million specimens have been slaughtered, this led the species to become a list of animals in danger of extinction

The defense mechanism of this small, is to roll (in the form of a ball) and thanks to its scales made of keratin (bone skin) that acts as a protective barrier for the sharp teeth of any animal, do not penetrate it; This coated protects it from other animals but not from humans, which are the main cause of its being in danger of extinction.

The female is larger than the male, always in pairs, stays together for 10 to 15 years, where there is a male there is a female and they remain coiled while they are frightened or feel in danger. The couple's bond is so strong that if the female dies, the male dies of grief, and vice versa.

Their main food is ants and termites, an adult pangolin can eat approximately 700 million ants each year. The usual thing is to use agriculture to counteract the plagues of ants and other insects, always insofar as it is not enclosed, since it is easily sought when being in captivity.

Bad people who do not have a little empathy for these beings and use them to market their meat because they consider it exquisite, as well as their scales for medicinal use. Well friends you know a little more of this species, to take care of it and promote its conservation, Because extinction is forever.