Humans are eating a scaly anteater into extinction

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Never underestimate omnivores with a penchant for animal-based traditional medicine.

At first glance, you might not peg the pangolin as the sort of animal that is being eaten by so many humans, at such a fast rate, that it could die out entirely — but its the most heavily trafficked species group in the world.

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