Years After Being Smuggled Into Thailand, Two Orangutans are Finally on Flight Back Home

Years After Being Smuggled Into Thailand, Two Orangutans are Finally on Flight Back Home
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Years After Being Smuggled Into Thailand, Two Orangutans are Finally on Flight Back Home
Eating fruit and drinking from plastic bottles, two Sumatran orangutans stared from their cages at Bangkok airport on Thursday before flying home to Indonesia, years after being smuggled into Thailand.
Poachers in Southeast Asia frequently capture the critically endangered orangutans to sell as pets, and police said four-year-olds Ung Aing and Natalee were supposed to be sold to a tourism business.
Wildlife traffickers tried to smuggle the two in via Malaysia in June 2017, but they were intercepted at the border -- along with 39 Hamilton tortoises, 12 Indian turtles and six raccoons -- after police received a tip-off about the vehicle they were in.

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