A pigeon was caught by guards in Costa Rica while it was attempting to smuggle cocaine and cannabis into a prison.
The drugs, about 14g of cocaine and at least the same amount of cannabis were wrapped in plastic and placed in a small zipped up pouch strapped to the bird's chest.
The drugs have been reported to have a street value of around N56,000 (281 dollars) and are believed to be meant for an inmate who may have trained the pigeon as a delivery agent.
Costa Rica's Ministry of Justice and Peace released the animal's picture and tagged it "narcopaloma", meaning "drugs dove"
Director of the Penitentiary Police, Paul Bertozzi, said that "Drug traffickers are using unimaginable ways to achieve their macabre atrocities. This is nothing new.
"In the past (the traffickers) have used cats and dogs to pass drugs to prisoners. Now it seems they are using pigeons to carry in their wares from the outside." he said.
Similar occurrences have previously been reported in Argentina in 2013 and Colombia in 2011.
The pigeon was later taken to a zoo.
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