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General_Effort@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 3 days ago

German customs officials find 1,500 tarantulas hidden in cake boxes at airport

www.euronews.com

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German customs officials find 1,500 tarantulas hidden in cake boxes at airport

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General_Effort@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 3 days ago
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    Tarantulas aren’t supposed to smell, from what I read.

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      Guarantee not all of them made it. And I kept feeder insects for my lizard. A whiff of dead bugs made me gag every time.

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        It says in the article that many died during transport.

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          I didn’t know smuggling tarantulas was so dangerous

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        Yeah gotta be this. Decaying arthropod smell is pretty gnarly

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