Hong Kong officials this week seized more than $5 million worth of illegal ivory, rhino horns, and leopard skins — a large and macabre haul of contraband.
The illegal items were hidden in 21 crates on a container ship going from Nigeria to Hong Kong. This contraband obviously wasn't hidden well enough.
Other smugglers who have also gotten caught have gone to even more creative lengths to sneak illegal items across international borders.
These items include illicit animal parts as well as drugs and live animals hidden in extremely creative places.
Here's the massive haul of skins and tusked seized on Aug. 7, 2013.
Earlier this summer, 213 bear paws were confiscated on their way from Russia to China, where they are a delicacy.
In March, another kind of bear was seized en route from Norway to Germany.
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