Bangkok authorities bust animal smuggler

Bangkok authorities have busted a man who attempted to board a plane carrying enough creatures to start a small zoo.The Indonesian smuggler's three suitcases contained:2 boa constrictors34 ball pythons26 lizards of assorted kinds6 Argentine horned frogs18 baboon spiders22 squirrelsa parrotand close to 150 tortoises of various speciesMany of the creatures in the man's suitcase menagerie were from rare and endangered species, including a plowshare tortoise, of which fewer than a thousand exist. Traffic says the man bought all the animals at Bangkok's Chatuchak market, a notorious hub for trading in rare animals.Source

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