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A Crime Lab for the Wild Kingdom
ABCNews -- Rare and beautiful animals such as the clouded leopard or douc langur monkey spend their lives in the jungles of southeast Asia. In death, they might end up in, of all places, an open U.S. market catering to southeast Asian immigrants. At one such market in Minnesota, in the shadow of the state capitol, federal agents recently uncovered a tiny slice of a multi-billion-dollar criminal enterprise that is rarely seen. "Slow loris is a primate," said federal agent Sheila O'Connor, explaining photos of evidence confiscated from the market. "These are dholes, dhole hide. These are tapir feet. [A dhole is a member of the dog family; the tapir is an endangered relative of the rhino]. These are douc langur parts. These are hands and feet both."...
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11.23.09 - Updated 11:11pm ET
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