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Canada Border Services seizes baby turtles

Canada Boarder Services

On August 8, 11 baby turtles were saved from a shipment destined to Calgary.

Officers were suspicious the envelope did not contain a book as declared.

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They opened the shipment as part of the routine exam.

The turtles measured about an inch and a half in diameter.

They were handed over the Calgary Zoo, who looked after them for a weekend and handed them off to Canadian wildlife services.

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