Zhou's endeavors are widely publicized in Hunan, and sometimes people call her with information.
"One day when I was lobbying for pangolin protection in a village, someone told me a family in the neighboring village had just caught a pangolin and were ready to cook it. We rushed there, but the pangolin was nowhere to be found," Zhou said.
She has seen only one living pangolin, outside a lab.
"It was at the end of 2015. Someone had saved the animal from illegal dealers and left it at a temple in Changsha. It was dying and had bloodstains on its mouth."
Despite Zhou's efforts to save it, the mammal died in less than two weeks. When researchers dissected it, they found gypsum in its stomach, used by dealers to make it heavier, to sell for more money.
"It was pregnant, too," Zhou said.
Zhou said she often dreamed of the dead pangolin and its cub.
"I hope more people will join us to protect their peers from such a miserable fate."
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