This giraffe may look exotic, but it's the tiny pangolin that is much harder to spot in South Africa's Kruger National Park. (Photo by Paul Mulshine)

I just returned from South Africa, where I helped track the most exotic beast in the bushveldt.

It wasn’t the lion, the elephant, the rhinoceros or some other great beast. It was the tiny pangolin.

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