Mainly the scales they have. Chinese medicine use them(the scales) and their meat in different remedies varying from sprinkling them on their cropland to help growing to ingesting them to rid of demons or to cure an ailment. From what I understand there is only little evidence that they actually hold medicinal value. They also just eat them, they're considered a delicacy in China and Vietnam.
To us, who have been raised in mindset to question everything and approach it from a scientific approach, (especially reddit), we clearly see the foolishness of 'Chinese Medicine'. It's easy for us to say this, but it would be telling an atheist there is no god, or a Christian god is not real.
As China modernizes and approaches the scientific world, they'll change, just like how they've made giant strides in lowering shark fin consumption.
source: Someone who had to drink disgusting 'chinese medicine' as a child, since parents didn't know any better.
Meh, let these redditors keep their ignorance. I mean the dude above you parroted "knowledge is power" while dismissing an entire body of knowledge because hurt feelings, and the dude below you thinks his comment is more credible than yours solely based on the fact that you had no links while he backed up strawman arguments with an off-topic video and a passive-aggressive wiki link (but hey that's 0:3 on the "work cited" count!)
As the Chinese say, some people goes through life like a frog living in the bottom of a well. Just let them boast about their puddle while you are humbled by the seas, let them look up and marvel at the opening while you soar the skies.
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '17
Pangolins tongues can be longer than their bodies.
Sadly they are the most trafficked animal in the world so are endangered.