People Try to Smuggle Everything Through the Jakarta Airport

At just one airport, over the course of just one month, people tried to smuggle hundreds of tortoises and lizards, dozens of snakes, 10 crocodiles and three of something called a slow loris, which as this YouTube video shows, are really cute when they’re being tickled.
Unfortunately the slow lorises that were confiscated in a Jakarta, Indonesia airport in November 2011 weren’t being tickled. They were being smuggled out of the country under the clothing of a man, according to this story from Traffic.org.

Another man reportedly tried to get into the country with 464 tortoises, 10 Nile crocodiles, 78 snakes and 254 lizards, all packed in bags and suitcases that had been on a flight from Cairo, Egypt.

Customs officials said the large number of confiscated animals showed “how air travel is being used to traffic wildlife rapidly across the globe.”