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bits February 01, 2024 at 04:56PM

Smoked monkey and whole sharks: the suitcase smugglers feeding Europe’s hunger for bushmeat | Wildlife | The Guardian

“Staff here are used to finding all kinds of creatures in baggage, from a 1.5-metre basking shark folded inside a box to a whole smoked monkey. But most meat comes dried, smoked, charred and chopped, so it is hard to identify it. In some cases, that’s probably the point. A hunk of meat being confiscated could be from a cane rat, catfish, monkey or pangolin – or it could just be a bit of beef.”

Smoked monkey!


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