It's a love song to a creepy, scale-covered mammal that kind of looks like the cross between a dinosaur and a pine cone. And I kinda-sorta love it. It's "My pangolin friend [official music video]," uploaded to YouTube by New York songwriter and actor Max Demers. Demers, a 30-year-old waiter and self-described "starving artist," made the video in response to my Change the List story on pangolin trafficking in Southeast Asia. The pangolin is thought to be the most trafficked mammal, by numbers, in the world. This unknown underdog is sold illegally and by the ton for its scales, which are used in bogus medicine, and for its meat, which is a super-high-end delicacy in Vietnam and China.
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Max Demers writes a song about the pangolin in response to CNN article
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Song is a love letter to these scale-covered animals
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Pangolin is thought to be the most trafficked mammal in the world
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It's traded illegally for its scales, which are used in medicine; and for meat
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