Does the lab do that kind of detective work with animals?
Tsara: Definitely! We had some eagles that looked as if they had drowned in their own blood! The pesticides that had been sprayed on the fields around their habitat had caused them to bleed profusely. It’s a tricky thing because people are so used to using pesticides. It’s hard to get them to change. It’s almost like the Asian medicinals, it’s cultural. TI: Any cases of people smuggling live animals? Tsara: We had a huge shipment of baby wallabies. They would be taken from their mothers, prematurely and shipped them in little felt pouches to simulate their mother’s pouch. We had a huge shipment of baby wallabies…Fifty percent of them died on the way to the United States… TI: But there is no nutrition inside a felt pouch! Tsara: Exactly! They stuck a carrot or something in there! Fifty percent of them died on the way to the United States and we had this huge shipment of dead wallabies. They were meant to be pets and they were sold for $5,000! TI: Wow! It’s amazing how stupid and tho
