Most Active Stories Fri February 22, 2013 Dead Mice Are Going To
Be Dropped On Guam From Helicopters (Really) Originally
published on Fri February 22, 2013 1:38 pm Here's the latest
plan scientists have come up with to kill some of the estimated
2 million brown tree snakes that have wiped out many other
animals on Guam: In April or May they're going to lace dead mice
with painkillers, attach them to little parachutes, drop them
from helicopters and hope that they get snagged in the jungle
foliage. Then, if all goes well, the snakes — which as their
name implies hang out in trees — will eat the mice and die from
ingesting the painkillers' active ingredients. We aren't
kidding. That's what The Associated Press is reporting from
Guam's Andersen Air Force Base, near where this experimental
airdrop will happen. To work, the snakes are going to have to
discover their snacks from the sky fairly quickly. According to
the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service: "Dead mice are attractive