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Demand for exotic pets in India fuels illegal trade in endangered species
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The potto is a slow-moving nocturnal primate found in African rainforests that span Sierra Leone to Uganda.
But four of these animals showed up thousands of kilometres away recently in Champhai, in the north-eastern Indian state of Mizoram, when the local authorities intercepted an illegal consignment of exotic fauna.
