【穿穿日，為牠穿上愛的鎧甲❤】

今天可是世界穿山甲日唷～

小編來為大家科普一下我們的里山好鄰居「鯪鯉」aka穿穿吧！

除了吻部、臉到喉部、四肢內側、尾末梢內側和可愛的小肚肚外，穿山甲從頭到尾披覆著鱗甲，每隻每年可以吃掉約七百萬隻螞蟻和白蟻，堪稱超強蟻剋星！🐜 全世界有八種穿山甲，四種在亞洲，四種在非洲，根據IUCN紅皮書，三種極危、三種瀕危、兩種易危，全都是保育類😭 其中臺灣的特有亞種「臺灣穿山甲」正是被列為「極危」的物種，因為棲地破壞以及有人迷信穿穿的鱗甲具通乳等神奇藥效，讓牠們瀕臨絕種😡😡😡

告訴你：假的！穿穿鱗甲的成分就是角質，跟人類指甲一摸摸一樣樣💅 再有人說穿山甲很補，叫他去吃指甲啦！！😤
#小編可贊助現剪送你不用錢

最近武漢肺炎也讓大家知道，野生動物是許多未知病毒的宿主，任意接觸和食用，可能會讓你送命啊！😱

要幫助穿山甲很簡單！✅支持友善環境農產品✅檢舉違法獸鋏✅檢舉不法交易✅郊區行車減速✅不棄養、不放養家犬✅不餵食遊蕩犬，守護野生動物安居的環境！一起愛護穿穿吧～💕

It's World Pangolin Day!

Pangolins are covered with scales from top to toe, except for their face, throat, belly, tail tip and inner part of four limbs. One pangolin consumes roughly seven million ants and termites per year. The animal is a super anteater! 🐜🐜🐜

There are eight species of pangolins around the world, four in Asia and the other four in Africa. On the red list of IUCN, three of the eight species are listed as critically endangered, with the other three endangered and two vulnerable. The main causes are poaching and deforestation. In China and Vietnam, many people still believe that pangolins’ scales are effective medicine and thus consume the animal to near extinction.

Of course the belief is nonsense. Pangolins’ scales are composed of keratin, just as human nails. If you find someone boasting about what magical effects of pangolin scales, tell them to nibble their own nails!

From the recent coronavirus outbreak, we can see that wildlife is the reservoir host of many unknown viruses. Eating wild animals might cost your life!

🌱How to help pangolins?

You can consume environmental friendly farm produce, report illegal traps, report poaching and trafficking, slow down when driving in rural areas, never abandon your pets, never let your dogs off leashes, never feed stray dogs, and thus keep Taiwan a safe home for pangolins and all the other wildlife.

Let's be the force 💪

我早質疑北大為首的蛇是病毒中間宿主的研究，《自然》也恥笑。

A team led by Wei Ji, a microbiologist at Peking University Health Science Center School of Basic Medical Sciences in Beijing, looked for a sign that 2019-nCoV had adapted to any specific animal host.

“They have no evidence snakes can be infected by this new coronavirus and serve as a host for it,” says Paulo Eduardo Brandão, a virologist at the University of São Paulo who is investigating whether coronaviruses can infect snakes at all. “There’s no consistent evidence of coronaviruses in hosts other than mammals and Aves (birds).”

Many researchers are sceptical that the animal host or hosts of 2019-nCoV can be identified without further field and laboratory work. Many hope that genetic tests of animals or environmental sources, such as cages and containers, from the Wuhan market will turn up clues.