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tangent4ronpaul
03-10-2013, 09:52 AM
U.S. to air drop toxic mice on Guam to kill venomous snakes

The dead mice will be laced with painkillers.
http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/us-to-air-drop-toxic-mice-on-guam-to-kill-venomous-snakes/

Watch out below! If you are planning on hiking through Guam’s jungles anytime soon, think twice before lacing up your hiking boots. NBC News reports that toxic mice are about to be air dropped on Guam to kill the venomous brown tree snake. Wildlife specialists have laced the dead mice with painkillers in the hope that the tiny critters kill off the poisonous reptiles.

NBC News notes that the majority of the island’s native bird species are extinct because of the brown tree snakes, which were unknowingly brought to the island by U.S. military ships after the end of World War II. The U.S. Geological Survey adds that the population of brown tree snakes has reached “unprecedented” numbers on Guam due to the abundance of prey and the absence of natural predators and other forms of population control.

In addition to wiping out most of Guam’s native bird species, the brown tree snakes have also caused thousands of power outages, the widespread loss of domestic birds and pets and significant emotional trauma to residents and tourists when the snakes venture into human dwellings.

The U.S. Geological Survey says that brown tree snakes are typically 3-6 feet in length, but have been known to grow to lengths of more than 10 feet on Guam. The snake is long and slender, which allows the reptile to sneak into buildings where it rests during the daylight hours.

With as many as 2 million brown tree snakes on island, wildlife officials are crossing their fingers that the toxic mice will work their magic. Officials in Hawaii, according to NBC News, are also concerned that the snakes could overrun the popular tourist destination.

“We are taking this to a new phase,” Daniel Vice, assistant state director of U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services in Hawaii, Guam, and the Pacific Islands, told NBC News. “There really is no other place in the world with a snake problem like Guam.”

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They might do well to remember history:

In the early 1950s, the Dayak people in
Borneo suffered from malaria. The World
Health Organization had a solution: they
sprayed large amounts of DDT to kill the
mosquitoes that carried the malaria. T h e
mosquitoes died, the malaria declined; so far,
so good. But there were side-effects. Among
the first was that the roofs of people’s houses
began to fall down on their heads. It seemed
that the DDT was killing a parasitic wasp
that had previously controlled thatch-eating
caterpillars. Worse, the DDT- p o i s o n e d
insects were eaten by geckoes, which were
eaten by cats. The cats died, the rats flourished,
and people were threatened by outbreaks
of sylvatic plague and typhus. To cope
with these problems, which it had itself created,
the World Health Organization was obliged
to parachute 14,000 live cats into Borneo.

The USDA's plan, in excruciating detail is laid out here:
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/regulations/pdfs/nepa/Guam_BO_AerialToxEA2011.pdf

Hay idiots! - ecosystems are very good at balancing themselves!

Also, snakes generally do not like dead food...

:rolleyes:

-t

tod evans
03-10-2013, 09:55 AM
http://deskofbrian.com/wp-content/uploads/cobra-mongoose.jpg

ghengis86
03-10-2013, 10:02 AM
drop some honey badgers on that island...they don't give a shit

tod evans
03-10-2013, 10:05 AM
These brain surgeons in "Our-Government" are taking the pain killers away from people who are in pain and dosing mice to feed snakes...

There must be a metaphor in there somewhere?

VoluntaryAmerican
03-10-2013, 10:28 AM
Are the people of Guam so helpless they can't hunt down some snakes? Ridiculous.

TokenLibertarianGuy
03-10-2013, 10:42 AM
Are the people of Guam so helpless they can't hunt down some snakes? Ridiculous.

They're too busy eating their dogs: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?368715-My-Neighbors-Just-Ate-their-Dog-(Seriously)-What-is-the-libertarian-stance-on-this

opal
03-10-2013, 11:55 AM
isn't this what .22s are for? and and... how bout a few live mongooses? mongeese? Isn't their diet snakes?

heavenlyboy34
03-10-2013, 12:11 PM
Hmmm...brilliant idea. What could possibly go wrong? :rolleyes:

Barrex
03-10-2013, 12:56 PM
http://deskofbrian.com/wp-content/uploads/cobra-mongoose.jpg
Mongoose. We did it in Croatia. When they are done with snakes they start going after chicken and other domestic animals.....NO!

fr33
03-10-2013, 12:56 PM
It's going to stink so bad with all those dead mice and dead snakes.

QuickZ06
03-10-2013, 12:59 PM
drop some honey badgers on that island...they don't give a shit

True dat!

mad cow
03-10-2013, 01:16 PM
Don't drop them all on one side,it might tip over.

tod evans
03-10-2013, 01:20 PM
Mongoose. We did it in Croatia. When they are done with snakes they start going after chicken and other domestic animals.....NO!

Here in the Ozarks we have black snakes that will kill copperheads and rattlers, problem is they'll eat eggs and small critters too.

DamianTV
03-10-2013, 02:19 PM
drop some honey badgers on that island...they don't give a shit


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

I couldnt resist, that and some people might not get the Honey Badger reference...

arsenius
03-10-2013, 08:17 PM
This seems appropriate:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Mother

Carson
03-10-2013, 08:48 PM
U.S. to air drop toxic mice on Guam to kill venomous snakes

The dead mice will be laced with painkillers.
Snip...

Also, snakes generally do not like dead food...

:rolleyes:

-t

Or may even be able to see it or find it cold.


Skinner: ahh, but as it turns out the lizards where a god send since they've eaten all the pigeons.
Lisa: Isn't that a little short sighted, what happens when where up to our ears with lizards?
Skinner: Ah, well we shall simply release wave after wave of Chinese needles snakes.
Lisa: then what about the snakes?
Skinner: We simply import gorillas who will eat all the snakes.
Lisa: Well what happens when where up to our ears in gorilla's!
Skinner: Ah that's the beauty of the thing, come winter the gorillas will freeze to death.