This is the shocking moment a man's huge suitcase was unzipped to reveal 10 live baby animals trapped inside.
Hearing squeaks and strange noises coming from his large bag a 58-year-old man was stopped at airport customs.
As the footage shows a series of wicker boxes were rammed inside the black holdall with the tiny creatures locked inside.
Five lemurs and five monkeys were saved.
One tiny lemur set free to show its living conditions seems so terrified it did not want to leave its box.
Then as it emerges blinking onto the airport floor, it tries to flee but apparently lacks the strength to even sit up properly.
From another cage, a baby monkey emerges but seems too confused to even eat a slice of apple it has been offered.
Eventually, the clearly anxious youngster squats with its head against a wall.
Holes had been cut into the boxes to allow the terrified animals to breath, but shocking official police video footage of their conditions show there was no food or water and no way for them to urinate except on top of each other.
The man, who had arrived on a flight from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, was taken into custody.
He is facing cruelty and smuggling charges in Russia.
Police say the trafficker - who had no proper documentation - confessed he had planned to sell the animals to a friend in Moscow.
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