Mexico City – The bus from Catemaco turned out to be a wild ride indeed: turtles and lizards, snakes and tarantulas, parrots and an eagle rode along with the apparently unwitting passengers.
Mexico’s attorney general’s office said Wednesday that federal police had seized more than 130 wild animals they discovered in the luggage compartment of a bus headed to Mexico City from Catemaco, a region famed for its diverse wildlife as well as for Indian medicine men. The wildlife was discovered when officers heard odd sounds coming from the luggage compartment of an ADO bus at a checkpoint in Chalco on the eastern outskirts of Mexico City.
The agency said officers found boxes containing an eagle, two toucans, 41 mockingbirds, three iguanas, 14 parrots, 15 snakes, 55 tortoises and a tarantula. Officials said they were trying to determine what to do with the animals.
