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Surge in confiscated animals pushes zoos to the brink leading to calls for new funding
NBC News· 2025-09-26 23:23
Crawling, basking, or squirming, the reptile house at Zoo Atlanta is teeming with animals, some with very unique stories. Take for example Luchadora, the boa constrictor. >> I believe it was five individual snakes that were in someone's luggage and they had been stuffed into Coke bottles. >> Or Gerdude the iguana. Someone tried to ship him through the US mail. >> The return address was fake, so it was deemed lost mail. >> Or Littlefoot the tortoise, now one of the zoo's ambassador animals. And then >> it fe ...
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BBC News (World)· 2025-08-12 07:44
Man faces jail in US for shipping 850 turtles in socks to Hong Kong https://t.co/CFuN4SRkA1 ...