October 2026 Friday’s e-links: Saving the Pangolin

Every once in a while, (and sometimes each day), I listen to a great podcast, enjoy an article, or see a good video that I want to share with you. These are my e-links.

Last updated 10/09/26

This week I particularly enjoyed a National Geographic article. About the pangolin, it was a classic endangered species tale. But the pangolin is anything but typical. Because of their culinary appeal and medicinal power in Asia, poachers heavily hunt them. In captivity, the species has to be fed multiple mounds of hundreds of thousands of ants and termites. But they won’t eat just any bugs. Picky eaters, daily, their ant species preferences change. And even then, they can refuse all food.

At 27 pangolins so far this year, the Tikki Hywood Foundation continues its rescue efforts.

This giant pangolin can be called a scaly anteater because of its impregnable head-to-toe overlapping scales:

Not in the article, but also critical, economists debate whether the market or hunting bans will save endangered species.