What is the most commonly poached animal?
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Most people have no idea that the pangolin is the world's most poached animal. Not only that, most people have no idea what a pangolin is. A small mammal, covered in overlapping scaled, their diet mainly consists of ants and termites and they are hard-to-locate, nocturnal animals.
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