No one knows for sure just how COVID-19 started but there are actually some theories that it involved this creature. Pangolins are said to carry a similar strain of the coronavirus. This got me thinking about how similar this creature is to a human. It looks completely different, yet it can carry the same virus that is spreading so rapidly. I wondered what other similarities we share with it, so I researched some pangolin facts. To begin, they eat very differently that we do. They don’t have any teeth and they use their long tongue to slurp out ants and termites. They also walk differently, on their hind legs, digging their claws into the ground and walking on their knuckles. However, they share some reproductive similarities to humans. Male pangolins only have a male sex organs and female pangolins only have female sex organs. Therefore, it takes both a male and a female to reproduce, and the female carriers the baby for about five months. So even though they seem very different, there is more to them than we think. Even if this pandemic was started by pangolins, the result is actually helping them. They are a highly trafficked and endangered species and they are not being sought out during this time.
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