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Peru airport officials discover 3,000 tarantulas smuggled inside dirty socks

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El Universal
“Incautan más de 3 mil tarántulas en aeropuerto de Perú; 2 alemanes y 1 polaco pretendían viajar con ellas a Alemania”

Más de 3 mil tarántulas , incluidas algunas de las especies más grandes de la Amazonía , fueron incautadas en el aeropuerto más importante de Perú tras ser halladas escondidas en el equipaje de dos alemanes y un polaco quienes pretendían viajar a Alemania , informaron el miércoles las autoridades. En un comunicado, el Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR) señaló que los tres extranjeros fueron detenidos en el aeropuerto internacional Jorge Chávez de Lima y enfrentarían un…

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The Guardian – World
“Peru airport officials discover 3,000 tarantulas smuggled inside dirty socks”

Three suitcases’ worth of the spiders were on their way to Germany, where they could fetch an estimated €1.5m More than 3,000 tarantulas were seized at an airport in Lima on their way to Germany, Peruvian authorities said. The spiders were hidden inside dirty socks contained in three suitcases carried by two Germans and a Polish citizen, the National Forestry and Wildlife Service (SERFOR) told Agence France-Presse on Thursday. Continue reading...

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