A notorious wildlife trafficker has been sentenced to six months in jail in Malaysia for attempting to smuggle 95 boa constrictors in his luggage.
Anson Wong, nicknamed the "Lizard King", had put the endangered snakes in a suitcase and attempted to smuggle them to Indonesia by plane.
The boas shared the bag with two rhinoceros vipers and a matamata turtle.
Mr Wong also has to pay a fine of 190,000 ringgit ($61,000).
Mr Wong pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle the animals from the Malaysian island state of Penang to the Indonesian capital Jakarta on 26 August.
He managed to take the suitcase with the snakes on his first flight from Penang.
But he was arrested in transit at Kuala Lumpur airport when staff were alerted to his bag, which had burst open on a conveyor belt.
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