--- title: Google's Valentine's Day Doodles Aren't Just About Love description: The Doodles' also remind the world of the threat faced by pangolins, the world's only scaly mammal — and the most trafficked species canonical: https://time.com/4668547/google-doodle-valentines-day-pangolins/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-13T06:26:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:30.523Z og:title: Google's Valentine's Day Doodles Aren't Just About Love og:description: They also raise awareness of the threat faced by the world's most trafficked animal og:url: https://time.com/4668547/google-doodle-valentines-day-pangolins/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb7b3e1a55bb066f/6988ba038e06018d2e4692e9/screen-shot-2017-02-13-at-1-43-55-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: screen-shot-2017-02-13-at-1-43-55-pm og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google's Valentine's Day Doodles Aren't Just About Love twitter:description: They also raise awareness of the threat faced by the world's most trafficked animal twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb7b3e1a55bb066f/6988ba038e06018d2e4692e9/screen-shot-2017-02-13-at-1-43-55-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google's Valentine's Day Doodles Call for Conservation of the Endangered Pangolin by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Feb 13, 2017 6:26 AM UTC  Google by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Feb 13, 2017 6:26 AM UTC Google has created a series of Valentine’s Day–themed Doodles as Feb. 14 gets closer, but love isn’t the only thing adorning the search giant’s front page these past few days. The Doodles for [Feb. 11](https://www.google.com/doodles/valentines-day-2017-day-1), [12](https://www.google.com/doodles/valentines-day-2017-day-2) and [13](https://www.google.com/doodles/valentines-day-2017-day-3) — all of which turn into an interactive game upon clicking — feature a pangolin looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for its mate. The pangolin, [also known as the scaly anteater](http://time.com/2846889/pangolins-china-cites-trafficking-endangered/), is the world’s only scaly mammal, according to Google.  The first Doodle, displayed Feb. 11, 2017, highlights the giant pangolin, a species native to Africa Google All eight species of pangolins are endangered by a thriving trade of poaching and smuggling. It is the world’s most trafficked animal, with more than 1 million taken from their natural habitats to be eaten or [used in traditional Chinese medicine](http://time.com/4578166/traditional-chinese-medicine-tcm-conservation-animals-tiger-pangolin/).  The second Doodle, released Feb. 12, 2017, features the Indian pangolin, a species native to India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan Google Upon clicking each Doodle, Google users will be led to a game, where a love-struck pangolin must collect different elements to make the perfect Valentine’s gift to its love — cocoa beans on the first day, musical notes on the second, and ribbons for lanterns on the third.  The third Doodle, released Feb. 13, 2017, is in honor of the Chinese pangolin, native to southern China, Taiwan, northern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar Google Google released the series of Doodle, called “Pangolin Love,” in association with the WWF, which has set up [a dedicated web page](https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/google-doodle?utm%5Fsource=Google&utm%5Fcampaign=PangolinLove&utm%5Fmedium=Doodle) to highlight efforts to conserve the scaly mammal. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4668547/google-doodle-valentines-day-pangolins/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4668547/google-doodle-valentines-day-pangolins/"},"headline":"Google's Valentine's Day Doodles Call for Conservation of the Endangered Pangolin","datePublished":"2017-02-13T06:26:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:46:30.523Z","description":"Google is using Valentine's Day to raise awareness of the threat faced by the world's most trafficked animal","url":"https://time.com/4668547/google-doodle-valentines-day-pangolins/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Internet","Conservation","Google Doodle","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb7b3e1a55bb066f/6988ba038e06018d2e4692e9/screen-shot-2017-02-13-at-1-43-55-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb7b3e1a55bb066f/6988ba038e06018d2e4692e9/screen-shot-2017-02-13-at-1-43-55-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"screen-shot-2017-02-13-at-1-43-55-pm","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4668547/google-doodle-valentines-day-pangolins/","name":"Google's Valentine's Day Doodles Call for Conservation of the Endangered Pangolin"}}]}] ```