Another armored animal——scale
lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they
form the uninterrupted central
tail-row! This near artichoke with head and legs and grit-equipped
gizzard,
the night miniature artist engineer is,
yes, Leonardo da Vinci's replica——
impressive animal and toiler of whom we seldom hear.
"Often, when poachers are interested only in the scales, they drop the curled-up pangolins into pots of water and boil them alive to make the scales easier to pluck."
It's times like this I feel ashamed to be a part of the human race.
Tragically, empathy's always been in short supply. One only has to look at news from Ukraine to see perpetrators don't give a shit for the suffering of their victims. It's so damn depressing.
