VIDEO. End of traffic for flying squirrels

A flying squirrel (illustration) -

Flying squirrels shipped for three years to South Korea and sold by the hundreds as pets for a profit of more than a million dollars ... It's over!

After a thrilling investigation lasting several months, which our partner Brut recounts in video, a gigantic traffic in wild animals has just been dismantled in Florida.

A species unsuited to domestic life

In the United States, however, the flying squirrel is a protected species, known to be unsuitable for domestic life.

And for good reason: these small animals live at night, can bite and transmit zoonoses.

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