U.S. Border Patrol agents in Brownsville arrested a migrant carrying a backpack filled with seven critically endangered spider monkeys.
The Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector posted a video on Facebook showing the monkeys huddled inside a bag that appeared to have holes in it to allow the animals to breathe.
The teen-aged migrant was arrested and the monkeys were turned over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Wildlife Conservation Society says spider monkeys are considered critically endangered and are among the 25 most threatened primates in the world.
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