Wildlife smuggling is the nation’s second-largest black market....

"...just behind narcotics, accounting for $8 billion to $10 billion a year in sales..."

"In 2002, a Palm Springs man was arrested on charges related to the smuggling of two Asian leopard cats into the airport in a backpack. His traveling companion was arrested when large birds of paradise came flying out of his luggage; also in the luggage were other birds stuffed into women’s stockings and 50 rare orchid bulbs. Two lesser slow lorises, also known as pygmy monkeys, were stuffed into his underwear."

(That scene should be in a movie: something like "Jumanji in an airport")

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/us/06wildlife.html