
“A group of 2,000 dead mice equipped with cardboard parachutes have been airdropped over a United States Air Force base in Guam in order to poison brown tree snakes. It may sound like the plot to an animated movie starring the vocal talents of Gilbert Godfried, but we assure you this is actually happening. The hope is that the snakes, which are invasive to the area and cause harm to exotic native birds and the island’s power grid, will be drawn to the toxic rodents, eat them, and then croak. The mice are dropped in a time sequence from low-flying helicopters. Each rodent is strung up to a tiny parachute made of cardboard and tissue paper.”
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/operation–mouse-drop-163310851.html
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