The Animal That Curls Into a Ball and Cannot Run
The Indian pangolin's primary defence is to roll into a tight armoured ball. Against a leopard, this works. Against a poacher with a sack, it is a gift. The animal does not bite, does not flee at speed, and emits no alarm call. A single person can pick one up with bare hands. This is not incidental to the trafficking crisis, it is the biological root of it.
