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Here's what happens to animals that are confiscated from smugglers. U.S. (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[–] memfree@piefed.social 14 points 2 days ago

Answer: Law enforcement itself doesn't have anything in place, but they call people who care.

Baby monkeys are hard, but:

Fischer, contact list at the ready, quickly found the babies a temporary placement at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, which had staff and facilities to do both the quarantine and the baby care. “They were immediately able to jump into action, call that agent back and start communicating,” says Fischer. The park staff even made the six-hour round-trip drive to pick up and triage the babies. “They were rock stars.”

Yay zoo!