Border officers at Edmonton airport find tarantulas in plastic container, toy plane


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Open this photo in gallery: A tarantula in a Canada Border Services Agency handout photo.HO/The Canadian Press The Canada Border Services Agency says officers discovered two live tarantulas hidden inside plastic containers at the Edmonton International Airport earlier this year. In May, officers saw irregularities in a small package from Hong Kong and found a male tarantula hidden inside a plastic container. Weeks later, an inspection of another package from the same shipper found a female spider hidden inside a children’s toy plane. It turns out the species of tarantula, which is native to Hong Kong, did not require permits...