On this #WorldPangolinDay, you should all go admire this gorgeous marquetry created by @tapirgirl https://flipping.rocks/@tapirgirl/111760638246914861

I just realized it's #WorldPangolinDay today so I'd like to share one of my older works here. It is a sad fact that this lovely species ist very endangered

#WorldPangolinDay

IFAW: In just ten years, it’s estimated that 1,000,000 pangolins have been poached. Enforcement efforts are making a difference against strong demand.

What you can do:
Create pangolin art for awareness (they're the only scaled mammal)
Blog about pangolins
Show your support on social media
Donate to enforcement efforts

#Wildlife #Conservation

https://www.ifaw.org/international/news/world-pangolin-day

The 3rd Saturday in February is is World Pangolin Day draw attention to the plight of the world’s most trafficked animals, these magnificent scaly mammals. There 8 species of #pangolin in Africa and Asia, all endangered, threatened by poachers for their meat and scales (used in traditional medicines) and by habitat loss and deforestation. 1/2

Today is #WorldPangolinDay, and to celebrate the occasion GigaScience presents a new article, adding two chromosome-scale genome sequences and in-depth genomic analyses. Putting a spotlight on the genetic vulnerabilities of the world’s most trafficked mammals.

Read the write-up from @HansZauner in GigaBlog:

http://gigasciencejournal.com/blog/world-pangolin-day-protecting-the-worlds-most-trafficked-mammal-with-genomics/

And read the research in GigaScience here:

https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaf003

Today is World Bonobo Day and tomorrow we are celebrating World Pangolin Day and World Hippopotamus Day.

Read some stories about these animals to learn more about them and celebrate them.

Bonobo: https://news.mongabay.com/?s=bonobo&formats=

Pangolin: https://news.mongabay.com/?s=pangolin&formats=

Hippo: https://news.mongabay.com/?s=hippo&formats=

For #WorldPangolinDay:
Asiatic #pangolin (Manis sp.), Pl. 82 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, c.1825-40.
NHM London
“Reeves was a tea inspector working for the British East India Company in China. He studied the plants & animals he found in China, and commissioned local artists to create beautiful, scientifically accurate paintings of them.”
https://naturalhistorymuseum.blog/2015/09/22/science-uncovered-2015-we-will-see-you-there-library-and-archives/amp/

For #WorldPangolinDay:
Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla)
from the Wellesley Albums, painted in Bengal by a local artist, c. 1798-1805.
British Library NHD 32/24:
https://imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/163131/

For #WorldPangolinDay :
Shaikh Zain al-Din, "Lady Imprey's Pangolin," Calcutta, 1779. Gouche on paper, 61.5 x 87.5 cm, British Library (BL Add.Or.4667). From an album commissioned by Lady Mary Impey, wife of Sir Elijah Impey, Chief Justice of Calcutta’s Supreme Court from 1774-82.
Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata)
https://tinyurl.com/5452x83e

February 18 is World Pangolin Day draw attention to the plight of the world’s most trafficked animals, these magnificent scaly mammals. There 8 species of #pangolin in Africa & Asia, all endangered, threatened by poachers for their meat & scales (used in traditional medicines) & by habitat loss and deforestation. 1/2

While our course books for kids says one of the characteristics of mammals is that their bodies are covered with hair and fur, they didn't gave exception of pangolins who are covered with scales and are mammals.

Yesterday was a #WorldPangolinDay

For #WorldPangolinDay Watercolor by an unknown #Chinese artist of 2 pangolins (probably the Sunda Pangolin, Manis javanica, now a critically #endangered species).

"This painting of a pangolin can be found in the 1st volume of the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings. The collection consists of 477 watercolours of flora & fauna that had been painted for Farquhar when he was the Resident of Malacca between 1803 and 1818"

National Museum of Singapore:
https://roots.gov.sg/Collection-Landing/listing/1082026

For #WorldPangolinDay:
Headdress (Igi Gelede)
Early/mid-20th century
Yoruba, Nigeria
Wood and pigment
On display at Art Institute of Chicago
(see reply post for a similar piece at the Met)

Today is #worldpangolinday. My first encounter with these gorgeous creatures was in 2017; my husband and I were running in a local reserve when a downpour sent people scurrying to the nearest shelter. We were already drenched so we decided to push on. Soon after we encountered this female pangolin and her offspring on the trail seeking higher ground. What a special moment! #WPD2023 #wildlifephotography #endangered #NaturePhotography

World Pangolin Day? Who comes up with these? Anyway, here’s an AI-generated wood carving of an adorable pangolin mage.

February 16 is #WorldPangolinDay to draw attention to the plight of the world’s most trafficked animals, these magnificent scaly mammals. There 8 species of #pangolin in Africa & Asia, all endangered, threatened by poachers for their meat & scales (used in traditional medicines) & by habitat loss & deforestation. This is the largest: the ground pangolin. I made him patterned & colourful to draw attention to him & his kin.

World Pangolin Day is here. Communities Leading Pangolin Conservation must prevail!
#worldpangolinday #WPD2023

More for #WorldPangolinDay: #DYK there are 8 living species of #pangolin, 4 in #Africa + 4 in #Asia? Unfortunately all are currently threatened with #extinction - they're the most heavily trafficked animals in the world.
Ivory box, 19th century
Unidentified Edo Artist, Igbesanmwan (Ivory Guild)
#Nigeria, Edo, Benin City
H 6.1 cm x L 16.2 cm x W 10.6 cm
Penn Museum collection:
https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/27537
(photographed on display @ museum)

More for #WorldPangolinDay: #DYK the name "pangolin" comes from the #Malay word "pengguling" meaning "something that rolls up" (they curl up into a ball when threatened, protected by their scaly armor)
Squat Jar in the Form of a #Pangolin
#Cambodia, Khmer, c. 1000-1200
Modeled stoneware, applied & incised decoration, brown glaze, 3.75 x 4.75 in. / 9.53 x 12.07 cm
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection: https://collections.lacma.org/node/240621