


“While reviewing X-ray images of the shipment, officers and agriculture specialists noticed the stuffed animals contained distinct shapes of what appeared to be five live animals,” the release said. The package’s contents were listed as “toy animals, T-shirts, and markers,” and contained an assortment of stuffed animals. The officers discovered the lizards, named for the armadillo-like shells that protect their bodies, when they checked a package from South Africa bound for southern Florida, according to a CBP press release. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers who rescued the mother and four other armadillo girdled lizards at the Cincinnati port of entry last November.

Nobody may be happier about that than some U.S. An armadillo girdled lizard recently gave birth at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
