It’s 12 pm on a Saturday morning and I am sprinting through a forest, camera gripped in hand, trying to catch some footage of a very elusive pangolin.
The creature scuttles ahead, nearly losing me in the undergrowth. It’s fast. It’s scaly. And as I pull back a branch and catch a sight of the animal in clear view, I realise something spectacular. This species is new to science.
It’s not a black-bellied pangolin.
Too big.
It’s not a white-bellied pangolin.
Too short a tongue.
It’s not a giant ground pangolin, a temminck’s ground pangolin, an Indian pangolin, a Phillipine pangolin, a Chinese pangolin or a Sunda pangolin either.
No. This right here is the never-filmed-before Cambridge pangolin.
On World Pangolin Day (20.02.2021), my bonkers housemate and pangolin researcher Charles Emogor is running for 8 hours around central Cambridge dressed as a pangolin. That’s one hour for each species of pangolin species previously known to science.
Support him. Follow along. And get involved. It’s for a mighty cause.
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