March 16, 2008
5 Funniest Exotic Animal Smuggling Busts
These are very funny stories, including this one about rainforest animal smuggling.
Those immortal words were spoken by Robert Cusack in 2004 after one of the more spectacular busts in smuggling history. Cusack only mentioned the baby animals in his trousers after he was fairly sure his cover was blown. Customs officials were tipped off to the fact he was smuggling animals after several of his cargo escaped his suitcase in Los Angeles. It probably didn’t help that the escaped cargo was four birds of paradise, one of the most colourful rainforest animals in the world, which then flew around above the heads of customs officials.
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March 16, 2007
Bornean Clouded Leopard
A new
rainforest animal discovered.
Borneo’s clouded leopard identified as new cat species:
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June 16, 2006
Peru Trip
The Yagua people hunt rainforest animals with blowguns.
The Yahua were historically expert blowgun hunters of monkeys, tree porcupines, pacas, sloths, birds and other small rainforest animals. The darts are made of palm-leaf midrib and tuffed with kapoc fiber. They are carried in a quiver made from pleated palm leaves. A small huingo "gourd" attached to the quiver holds a supply of kapoc fiber to tuft the darts.
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October 12, 2005
Speaking Of Sloth
I can't say that I've ever seen a sloth in person.
These sloths remind me of the time I went to Chris’ residence hall library program with my friend Ryan "Galaxor Nebulon" Hughes. (Hi Ryan! Where the hell are ya?) Chris had brought in a bunch of rainforest animals to the residence hall to, I dunno, promote reading or something. There were a bunch of snakes and fuzzy things, a scorpion, and a two-toed sloth. At the end of the program, the audience was invited to come up and pet the animals. Ryan decided that he should pet the sloth. Ryan HAD to pet the sloth.
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