00:00Native to Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, pangolins are the only mammals covered in scales.
00:07This baby pangolin lives at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo,
00:10the only place in the U.S. where visitors can see pangolins up close.
00:15Pangolins are also one of the world's most trafficked mammals,
00:19prized for their meat and scales, which are used in traditional medicine.
00:24Poaching and deforestation of their natural habitats
00:27have drastically reduced their population,
00:30and several pangolin species are now listed as threatened or endangered.
00:36Now a new Netflix documentary is bringing long-overdue attention to the creatures.
00:41Pangolin Kulu's Journey follows a baby pangolin
00:44as he journeys back to the wild after being rescued from poachers.
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