A Thailand plantation farmer likely never expected to find a scaly critter curled up in the cupholder of his truck recently. It turns out the cat-sized animal was a pangolin—the only scaled mammal in the world, and also the most trafficked.
Far away from its natural, lush jungle habitat, the pangolin is lucky that the farmer chose to turn it over to the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT); its fate could have been much worse had he accepted a friend’s offer to buy the specimen.
