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Over 500 tiny lives have just been saved — thanks to kind undercover rescuers who just raided a market in Asia that often sells live animals as pets.

Heroes Find Hundreds Of Live Birds Stuffed In Tiny Cages

Just eight months ago, Kenobi the tiger cub was almost someone’s pet — or worse.

Baby Tiger Who Was Found In Duffel Bag Just Made His First Friend

When Bujing the orangutan was just a tiny baby, his world was shattered into pieces.

Little Orangutan Who Lost Hair From Being Hungry Has Best Transformation

The slow lorises had spent weeks crammed in tiny crates with just enough food and water to keep them alive — and they were petrified.

Rescuers Find The Saddest Thing Stuffed Into These Tiny Boxes

In September, Ben Crane and his family were hanging out at home in England when they suddenly noticed an animal hanging out under their deck.

Family Finds The Strangest Animal Living Under Their Porch

When baby chimps arrive at the rescue center run by Ape Action Africa, they’re often scared, sick and traumatized.

This Guy's The Best 'Mom' To Dozens Of Orphaned Chimps

Animal lovers were livid when singer Chris Brown surprised his daughter with a baby monkey as a gift last Christmas.

Singer Chris Brown Is In Trouble After Buying Monkey As A Christmas Gift

The songbirds should have been flying freely in the forest, foraging for food and calling to each other with their melodic trills.

More Than 9,000 Stolen Songbirds Have Been Saved In Just 10 Days

On Sunday, a man was jogging through a field near Utrecht, in the Netherlands, when he found something bizarre — sitting in the grass was a metal dog cage, and inside the cage was a tiny lion cub.

Jogger Finds Abandoned Lion Cub In The Middle Of A Field

The two orangutans were just babies who should have been with their moms.

Baby Orangutans Stolen As 'Pets' Wouldn't Stop Hugging Each Other

They should have been in the wild, exploring the world and learning to hunt by their mothers’ sides.

Officials Can't Believe What They Find Inside New York Man's House

When a tiny baby macaque was born in the wild forest in Thailand, there was no reason for him to ever think that he'd one day put in a cramped wire cage in someone's yard — but that's exactly where he ended up.

Illegal Pet Trade

Heroes Find Hundreds Of Live Birds Stuffed In Tiny Cages

They were being shipped to become pets 💔

Baby Tiger Who Was Found In Duffel Bag Just Made His First Friend

His whole life has changed so much 💗

Little Orangutan Who Lost Hair From Being Hungry Has Best Transformation

He's so beautiful — and happy — now 😍

Rescuers Find The Saddest Thing Stuffed Into These Tiny Boxes

Some of them had been in there for months!

Family Finds The Strangest Animal Living Under Their Porch

Nope, that's not a raccoon 😱

This Guy's The Best 'Mom' To Dozens Of Orphaned Chimps

They love him so much ❤

Singer Chris Brown Is In Trouble After Buying Monkey As A Christmas Gift

His fans weren't happy — and now he might go to jail 😱

More Than 9,000 Stolen Songbirds Have Been Saved In Just 10 Days

"I often heard birds singing in the yard of our houses ... Now even our forests are silent.”

Jogger Finds Abandoned Lion Cub In The Middle Of A Field

No one knows how he got there 😱

Baby Orangutans Stolen As 'Pets' Wouldn't Stop Hugging Each Other

They were hidden in two boxes on a boat — and people couldn't believe what else they found when they opened up the rest of the cargo 😱

Officials Can't Believe What They Find Inside New York Man's House

They found them just in time.

People Discover Strange 'Pet' Living In Wire Cage In Someone's Yard

"He could not believe his luck."