Pangolins known for being scaly.

Famous for being cute.

So cute.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why pangolins are secretly incredibly fascinating.

Music Hey there folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alec Schmidt. I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden, Katie.

Hello. What is your relationship to or opinion of pangolins? They're amazing and fantastic and they're living pine cones. And I do, I, because I do a whole

podcast called Creature Feature on Animals and I was thinking like, I must have done a pangolin episode

before. And then I realized, wait, no, I have not.

Oh, yeah, okay.

Yeah, I don't think so.

I don't think I have.

And I found just thinking about this that I think the internet thinks about pangolins more than I do.

Like this did very well in the polls and on our discord and stuff.

And thank you to Octo Mysterious Contraption for the suggestion.

Also, Wooster, X-Devalis, Donna, Arcblade, X-Karex, J-C-R, dude.

Lots of people were excited about it.

But, yeah, I think this has grown in stature as a famously cute Internet animal,

and it just hasn't been one that's top of mind for me.

Because it kind of has some of the aspects of other animals.

So you would think they're like related to other groups of animals like armadillos maybe,

maybe ant eaters, maybe even porcupines, right?

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