‘He looks like a pine-cone dipped in chocolate!’
South Africa (22 March 2026) – The Pangolin Crisis Fund posted a video of a pangolin taking a mud bath and it’s one of the most wholesome things we ever did see!
Pangolins roll and twist to get mud underneath all those overlapping scales, it’s skin and scale care that also smothers parasites and keeps them cool in the heat.
We’re adding this one to our archive of cool pangolin sightings!
The wholesomeness was shared by the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Pangolin Crisis Fund, which works to eliminate the poaching, trafficking, and demand crisis threatening all eight of pangolin species. They fund over 100 projects across 28 countries worldwide to stop poaching, disrupt the trade, and create more awareness about the world’s eight pangolin species under threat.
Locally, heroes like the team at the African Pangolin Working Group work to protect the species. Just this week, a documentary telling the story of one of their rescued pangolins scooped not one but two Golden Horns at the SAFTAs!
Then there are other drives like the one from the Habitat Nature Parks Foundation and the Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital, who created a free augmented reality app that lets you project a life-size pangolin right into your living room and actually chat with it…
There’s even a worldwide drive to get a pangolin emoji, and everyone can get involved — all it takes is a quick Google search for ‘pangolin’ to help the cause. There’s even a chance to design the emoji yourself if you’re feeling creative!
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