PICS: 119 tarantulas found inside shoes
It turns out that the tarantulas were being smuggled.
Customs officials in the Philippines seized over a hundred tarantulas at an airport in the country.
According to a post from the official Facebook page of the Philippines Bureau of Customs, the spiders were discovered inside a parcel that had been marked as โbutyโ - a Polish word for shoes.
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The parcel, which was shipped from Poland, was intercepted after authorities scanned it and found suspicious images.
According to the post, the tarantulas were turned over to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Wildlife Traffic Monitoring Unit for handling and disposal.
๐๐๐๐๐ผ๐บ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ญ๐ญ๐ต ๐ฆ๐บ๐๐ด๐ด๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐๐น๐ฎ๐ The Bureau of Customs-NAIA prevented another attempt of illegal...
Posted by Bureau of Customs PH on Thursday, 29 October 2020
Illegal tarantula trade is a known corner of the black market in wildlife, which is a multibillion-dollar industry.
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IMAGE CREDIT: Facebook/BureauofcustomsPH
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