Iguanas
CEF B1
Could you please remove your leg, sir?
Airline security staff may not be looking for kittens or
monkeys. But they are aware of the illegal trade
in endangered reptiles. So how do you
transport three iguanas across the world?
No Spare Leg
US prosecutors claim that a
Californian Jereme James stole the bright green lizards
from a nature reserve in Fiji. James then
smuggled the iguanas back to the
United States by hiding them in a special compartment
in his prosthetic leg. 
This not surprising. Airline staff are not trained to
say, ‘Could you please take your leg off,
sir?’ And most iguana smugglers don’t have
a spare leg.
Mr James now faces up to five years in
prison.
