The office for environmental protection announced Wednesday someone tried to express-mail a tiger cub.
No one noticed that a sedated cub was packed into a plastic container until a sniffer dog arrived and detected it while searching for smuggled goods.
The cub was mailed in Jalisco, which lies in the country's west, to an address in the central state of Queretaro.
Though dehydrated, it was reported to be otherwise well. The cub was shortly handed over to an animal management center.
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