Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes

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1. Slimjuggalo2002 says

   Great, now the island is definitely tipping over!

2. LordBlackDragon says

   Must have been a hell of a job teaching all those mice how to use a parachute let alone putting them all on them.

3. Melodicmustard says

   Switzerland used a similar strategy to eradicate rabies. In the 1980s, helicopters dropped massive quantities of vaccine-treated chicken heads across the countryside in the hopes that foxes would consume them and become immunized as a result.
   It succeeded. Since then, there haven’t been many cases of rabies in animals in the nation.

4. FearGunner says

   It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for ’em.

5. biff444444 says

   I’ve seen “The Secret of NIMH” so I know how this turns out.

6. SXOSXO says

   Humans have tried these solutions in the past. The results are never the desired outcome.

7. youdoitimbusy says

   Seems like they could have dropped 1 honey badger and called it a day.

8. Wong_Kangaroo says

   Two thousand little parachutes

9. ithaqua34 says

   I hope the Apes are on standby.

10. SweatyTax4669 says

    this is, strangely enough, a nexus of two conversations happening in the office right now.

11. lynivvinyl says

    I hope they gave those mice some good guns.

12. kbomb2 says

    I want to see a pic of the mice with their parachutes

13. Working_Ad_4650 says

    I just can’t help but think this will have unintended consequences

14. GetlostMaps says

    Doctor I have a headache.

    *Take 6 mice and call me in the morning.*

15. Markqz says

    Dropping poisoned mice will only set back the snakes. Undoubtedly there will be many snakes that never encounter a mouse, and so aren’t poisoned.

    Guam might be the ideal place to test the gene-drive. Using gene-drive, you can, in theory, wipe out all of a species within several generations.