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Border agents save 7 endangered spider monkeys being smuggled in a backpack: ‘Aw, poor babies’
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0:47Now PlayingTexas border patrol agents rescued seven endangered baby spider monkeys that were smuggled inside a backpack over the southern border.
Video from an arrest in Brownsville on Thursday shows officials opening the bag and finding the monkeys huddled together.
“Aw, poor babies,” one of the agents says.
The monkeys were seized from a juvenile offender, who stuffed the simians inside a backpack that had holes poked in it to allow them to breathe, officials said.
“This case highlights the lengths smugglers will go to maximize profits with no regard for the lives of migrants or animals,” said Gloria Chavez, the chief patrol agent for the Rio Grande Valley sector.
The endangered monkeys have since been transferred to the agents with the US Fish and Wildlife Department. Their current condition was not made immediately available.
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