Police Seize 280 Rare Pangolins

Pangolin Pup

Bangkok- Thai border policemen have seized 280 rare pangolins in southern Thailand but the man transporting them got away, officials said Saturday.
The pangolins, a rare scaly ant-eating mammal found in tropical Asia and Africa, were probably bound for cooking pots in China where they are considered an aphrodisiac and thought to increase longevity, officials said.

Is there anything the Chinese don't eat as an aphrodisiac ? Why don't they just take viagra like everyone else ? It's a lot less work.
They do look kinda yummy though...

They were most likely smuggled from Indonesia through Malaysia and found in Songkhla Province, 700 kilometres south of Bangkok, and worth at least 5 million baht (150,000 dollars).

That's a lot of baht, that'll buy a lot of beer.

Police said they will give the pangolins, based on the Malaya word that means "something that rolls up", to the Forest Department in hopes they can release them back into the wild.