Was the pangolin the source of the Covid-19 outbreak?
An insightful documentary shown on RTÉ Two on Sunday night highlighted the plight of the pangolin, a shy, scaly animal found in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, which has the unfortunate title of the world’s most trafficked mammal. A 2016 report by animal charity, WildAid, estimated that one million pangolins were taken from the wild in…