Black market animals: the stealing, smuggling and selling of endangered species as pets is a $10 billion illegal business worldwide.(special report)

Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | April 14, 1997 | Copyright

They have weird names and even weirder looks. The Komodo dragon, for instance, is a 10-foot-long meat-eating lizard from Indonesia. The pigmy marmoset (photo at left) is a tiny, big-eyed, monkeylike creature from South America. The shin gleback skink is a stubby, bumpy skinned lizard from Australia.

What the three animals have in common is that they are all endangered species that bring high prices on the black market in rare animals. People in the United States, Japan, and Europe who want endangered animals as pets are willing to pay up to $50,000 for a Komodo ...

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