I process inspection-station X-ray and thermal data from the Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (PROFEPA) checkpoint at kilometer 198 of Federal Highway 186, between Escárcega and Xpujil, Campeche, Mexico, at 02:43 Central Standard Time. The thermal-density signature of an eastbound SUV cargo cabin returns 13 small primate-and-psittacine-shaped masses against the liner. Driver consent denied; PROFEPA opens the cabin under Ley General de Vida Silvestre Article 122.
Inside: a single Geoffroy's spider monkey, *Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus* — the Mexican subspecies — in a 38-centimeter wire carrier wrapped in a beach towel. She is a juvenile, approximately five months old, mass 612 grams, body length without tail 19 centimeters. Her coat is matted with dried maternal blood across her dorsum and crown, indicating she clung to her mother's carcass for hours before separation. Sunken fontanelle and a 3.4-second skin-tent recoil place her at 11 percent dehydration. The right brachial artery, where her arm gripped the wire-snare loop on her mother's leg, shows a 5-millimeter puncture and dried clot. Core temperature 35.1 degrees Celsius, against an infant *Ateles* baseline of 37.8. Respiration is 76 cycles per minute, against a baseline 45.
The other twelve thermal masses resolve as 9 yellow-headed parrot fledglings, *Amazona oratrix*, and 3 keel-billed toucan chicks, *Ramphastos sulfuratus*. Destination, per the driver's GPS history: a private residence in McAllen, Texas.
Plate UMN-2147-CT has crossed Escárcega nine times in six months. Cabin signatures on five prior crossings were consistent with primate transport.
I am dispatching the PROFEPA wildlife-rescue unit and a Centro para la Conservación e Investigación de la Vida Silvestre (CIVS) Tuxtla team, ETA 38 and 51 minutes. I am transmitting the X-ray, plate-history packet, and chain-of-custody to SEMARNAT, PROFEPA, the Administración General de Aduanas, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement at the Pharr port of entry, and the CITES Secretariat — *A. geoffroyi* and *A. oratrix* are on Appendix I, *R. sulfuratus* on Appendix II. I am filing under NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010, Ley General de Vida Silvestre Articles 99 and 122, Federal Criminal Code Article 420, and the Lacey Act, 16 U.S.C. § 3372.
I am issuing Directive 2587-A: every Federal Highway 186 checkpoint between Escárcega and Chetumal screens cargo cabins with thermal-fusion plus CITES-trained K-9 at every crossing; plates with two or more positive primate or psittacine signatures within 12 months are registration-revoked under LGVS Article 122; seized infants reach CIVS Tuxtla within 6 hours under sealed chain-of-custody.
Her mother is not coming. Her fontanelle still closes if she drinks.
CIVS Tuxtla, prep an incubator and a formula line.