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Gang who smuggled thousands of queen ants sentenced in Kenya (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 day ago by nokturne213@sopuli.xyz to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From what i gather, because they are rare and pretty cool. People will spend thousands on rare fish for their aquarium hobby, I could definitely see ant colony nerds paying that for a rare and apparently quite large african species.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 6 points 23 hours ago

And the things locals do to collect pretty fish are heinous beyond their comprehension. That $50 tropical fish could be one of a hundred collected on a reef that is now dead due to use of cyanide to stun it for easier collection.