Customs officials seized as many as 22 exotic wildlife species from an Indian passenger who arrived at Chennai International Airport from Thailand’s Bangkok, officials said on Monday.The department said in a statement that the Air Intelligence Unit of the Customs department seized the animals from the passenger, identified as Mohamed Meera Sardharali, who arrived in Chennai on a Thai Air Asia flight from Bangkok on August 10.
The seized animals include one Siamang Gibbon, two Sunda flying lemur, five Indo-Chene box turtle, nine four-eyed turtle, one Keeled box turtle, one Red foot tortoise, two green tree python and one white-lipped python.