Google Doodle: Spreading Pangolin love
Pangolin Love is not only Google's Doodle for Valentines Day but it also runs as an awareness campaign.
POLOKWANE – Google is probably the most popular search engine on the web and their doodles are a fun and interactive way of getting in touch with a wide audience.
Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists.
The Google team has created over 2000 doodles and there is a team of illustrators, called ‘doodlers’, and engineers that are behind each and every doodle you see.
This Valentine’s Day Doodle is also an awareness campaign to raise awareness for the pangolin, a strange-looking creature resembling a pine cone that’s prized by the Chinese for its supposed healing properties.
For this, the search giant created a series of Valentine’s Day-themed doodles and the interactive games have been featured on Google’s homepage since 11 February, in the week leading up to World Pangolin Day on 18 February.
Titled ‘Pangolin Love’, Google created four Valentine’s-themed pangolin games, each set in one of the animal’s natural habitats—Ghana, India, China, and the Philippines—where it has to collect certain elements to create the perfect gift for its mate.
In Ghana, the Pangolin has to collect cocoa beans to make a chocolate cake
INDIA
In India, the Pangolin must collect music notes to learn a song.
CHINA
In China, the Pangolin must collect ribbons to learn a dance.
PHILIPPINES
In the Philippines, the Pangolin must collect flowers to make a bouquet.
After creating a beautiful bouquet of flowers for his love, the pangolin eventually spots his scaly sweetheart in the distance, surrounded by the sunset’s glow.
All of a sudden, a sweet plot twist! Pangolin is greeted with the perfect Valentine, straight from the heart. The two roll out on an adventure with the greatest gift of all – each other.
Let us know if you have played the game and whether or not you researched about the plight of Pangolins afterwards.
