It's because of this scale, this unique feature that makes them a target, said Tessa Ullman, a volunteer for the Sangha Pangolin project at Preservation Society. The pangolin burrow to create holes, so the scales are associated with circulation. It's used as an ingredient in traditional asian medicines they used to help mothers for lactation and for blood pressure. But none of this has been clinically proven. So it's like tiger teeth and rhino horn shit tusks. Yeah, there's so much of that shit. I was talking to a chinese guy about that.