The "Trenggiling" was inside of a rice sack and was moving about like crazy! Not knowing what a "Trenggiling" was, let alone looked like, made it really interesting to look inside the sack, and a little scarry, because in my mind I thought it was something like a badger. In fact a "Trenggiling" is nothing like a badger at all, it is more like a...
Popple?
Big Scarry Lizard?
Armadillo?
Nope...it's a kind of Anteater.In English it's called a Pangolin, but I had to look it up online to find out. Apparently, they live in several South Asian Country's and parts of Africa, but I've never seen one before. They can emit a smell like a skunk when they're scared, this guy didn't stink at the time, but I'm sure he did when they caught him. I wish this story had a happy ending, but it doesn't. He ended up as dinner by the locals. Too bad, it's the first real wildlife I have seen on Nias, and I suspect there arn't too many around. The Chinese use them also for traditional medicine and their skin is often sought after as a remody of some sort. Weird little critter.
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What a cool looking critter. So sad he ended up in a stew pot.It seems nothing survives. Great to see one though. Hugs to you. Mum
Wierd that you are in a country where people are more likely to eat stuff than you are...what is this world coming to??!!
i'm so sorry for that trenggiling... :(... i'm from indonesia, as a kid my life once crossed path with a trenggiling. my neighbors caught a trenggiling once during sunset. there was a lot of talks about that trenggiling... a person came out of the blue and bought the trenggiling from my neighbors, and they sold it. so strange... a stranger coming just to kind of ransom the trenggiling. and since then i've never seen more trenggilings in my life, except in the zoo... but here in arkansas, i've seen a kind of animal that looks somewhat like trenggiling, it's armadillo. i've seen many of them run over in the highways... still a sad thing to see...
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