College Students Find A Mysterious Intruder In Their Dorm But Realize That It Actually Needed Their Help

Her Finding

So Dr. Luz then took up a project in Singapore and made a remarkable realization. So what did she find out then? Well, her project revealed and recognized the importance of placing the pangolins back in the jungle. The students helping release the pangolin back to its natural habitat had indeed led to an even bigger advantage for them on a wider scale too.

A Unique Project

But you see her project was not like ordinary. She had taken up the study of these endangered species so as to find ways to help increase their number or identify and reduce threat for these animals. And she found out that at the beginning of 2017, a local from Singapore found a young pangolin at a construction site near his house.

Naming The Pangolin

So when the resident found this pangolin, since it resembled a Pokemon, the rescuer decided to name the pangolin Sandshrew after the Pokemon character. If you have watched the cartoon show “Pokemon” growing, up, you will automatically know just why this would be the name of the animal. Sandshrews do in fact, look like these strange creatures.

A Pokemon

After the rescuer discovered the pangolin at the construction site, it was there at home, kept as a pet of sorts, And by May of 2017, Dr. Luz and her team heard about it. They caught word that Sandshrew the pangolin had been found and soon devised a study for the animal. This study would aim to uncover how pangolins would behave after they get released in the wild again.

The Main Aim

The unique thing that this study would do was to look at how the pangolin behaved when he was kept back in his natural habitat. The main aim of the project was to show how he readjusted. This point was something that the college-going pangolin had done without any supervision. There was no way to know whether the pangolin survived or not.

First Supervision

So even though it was definitely better for the pangolin to get back to its natural habitat instead of staying at the dorm or in the city, there was no surety if the animal survived or not. “This,” Dr. Luz explained, speaking about her project, would be “the very first documented case in the world where a hand-reared pangolin is being released back into the wild and tracked.”