Peru airport thwarts plot to smuggle 3,000 tarantulas in dirty socks | AFP

More than 3,000 tarantulas have been seized at an airport in Lima before the furry crawlers could be smuggled to Germany, according to Peruvian authorities. The spiders were hidden in dirty socks contained in three suitcases carried by two Germans and a Polish citizen, according to the National Forestry and Wildlife Service (SERFOR).

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