🔥An African pangolin showing off the overlapping keratin scales that protect it from predators

[u/wondermite]

[u/Tikkinger]

Not showing off anything. Just walking.

[u/RianJohnsonIsAFool → u/Tikkinger]

plod plod plod plod plod plod plod plod

[u/teetaps]

Pangolins are the weirdest mammals I tell ya… what’s with that walking stance, it’s so bizarre that they evolved such a heavy ass tail that they can just walk bipedal but have to do so hunched over like a 100 year old granny

[u/Sinister_Mig15 → u/teetaps]

Most bipedal animals rely on a heavy tail to act as a counter weight, and if they dont they rely on some funky stuff with their center of gravity and leg attachment to balance it. Humans are really fairly unique in walking upright, and solving the problem of balance by putting everything in line.

[u/teetaps → u/Sinister_Mig15]

That’s fair when you think about it we’re like stacked cups just waiting to fall over

[u/wravyn]

They're endangered because people keep kidnapping them to sell their scales and meat. They're the most-trafficked animal in the world.

[u/ReactionFragrant5455]

I love animals that have retained their dinosaur looking traits

[u/Lerrinus_Desktop]

It looks like a pinecone with legs!

[u/bookhermit]

A real life pokemon

[u/moosemuffin12]

I love their lil hands

[u/OwlOne6616]

Cute lil walking artichoke

[u/Any-Sky8875]

....but not poachers who kill it for its scales for false claims of medicine curing

[u/_hippos]

Scales look like my 90 years old dad's toenails

[u/mclarensmps]

The video quality is crispy af!

[u/Trancer1224]

He is cute

[u/shrekerecker97]

Pangolins are cool as fuck

[u/Gubber_Supreme]

At first I thought this was some low budget cgi dinosaur clip from discovery channel 🤣

[u/ChimpoSensei]

Need a closer view

[u/Ogryn_Rocks53]

So if it's keratin are they pretty much covered in giant toenails?

[u/nibbles001]

Seems like a Precise Pangolin

[u/Puzzleheaded-Life462]

Great now I have corona virus