The night we tried to save a Pangolin

We went out for dinner a day back which is.. 3rd of December. My sister was driving and well on the way back, while turning into Chestnut Avenue from Petir road, we saw a Camry which was stationary. No hazard lights though, but the occupants seemed to be staring at something on the right.

At first we didn't notice it and my sis proceeded to overtake by cutting to the oncoming lane and then suddenly she hit the brakes and started with the 'ooh-ing and aah-ing'.

Apparently there was a damsel pangolin in distress and there were 2 of them! I've never seen a pangolin before and I had no idea it was called and spelt pangolin till I called the walking animal planet -->> Ivan. Wahaha~

The car in front of us moved off (they were from the same neighbourhood anyway) and we also moved on after about 3 more minutes of staring in awe to see what's happening. From what I can see, the young pangolin was dead and the parent was trying to revive its dead child.

We went back home and we decided to head back to help the adult pangolin because we kind of assumed the young one was run over, and the adult pangolin was in danger of being run over. After arming ourselves with our camera, umbrella and an unused magazine =p we drove back.

On getting back the parent was nowhere to be found, it appeared on the other side of the road about a minute later and proceeded to crawl towards the ang pao chia. *sweat + pray "pls don't scratch the car, if not I'll use your scales to cover the scratch"*

Where were we? Haa.. the pangolin crawled underneath the car with the engine still running (silly sis no sense of fuel saving in her) and fortunately reappeared on the other side -_-" Again she(assume for sake of convenience) tried to revive the young pangolin by using her snout to push against her kid but the kid was stiff to the touch. Yeah I touched it before she appeared, just wanted to know if the creature was still alive or not.

We waited and observed in awe at this display of motherly/parental love and it was frankly a very touching moment. The mother then after sniffing with its snout, pressed down on her kid with her front paws. Then she turned and looked at us, almost as if begging us to save her child. Uh uh uh it was really sad, the mother's eyes were dilated.. well actually not but you can tell she was in distress and I felt much worse than her being unable to help. I could only watch, as she tried to revive her kid, all the time being unable to express her grief through facial expressions or anything.

It was certainly a very touching moment, and tears welled up in my eyes. Ok lah got a bit lah =p

The parent then left and went into the bushes then I proceeded to roll the carcass over onto an unused magazine, and at this point of time, princess J called me. (Saving me from performing the duty of relocating the dead carcass, my sis did it wahaha)

Since then, haven't seen the adult pangolin about the area but I wish him/her/it well. It was a real eye opener in many different ways.

Edit:
#1 There are more pics, equally blur but large sized images.
#2 By saving the Pangolin, we meant moving the dead carcass to another location so that at least the parent can grieve and mourn someplace else. Kinda lame but.. what else could I do?
#3 Hai~Ren you should have called me if your friend or whoever went to try to collect the carcass, Cashew Road is not the correct add. but nvm, I'll check again tomorrow morn.
#4 Upon flipping the dead pangolin, I don't think it was a roadkill. No blood, no visible broken or oddly shaped limbs, and no it wasn't flattened.