{"id":18903,"date":"2013-12-03T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18903"},"modified":"2013-12-03T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:14:13","slug":"two-thousand-mice-dropped-on-guam-by-parachute-to-kill-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/03\/two-thousand-mice-dropped-on-guam-by-parachute-to-kill-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute \u2014 to kill snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute \u2014 to kill snakes<\/a><\/p>\n

Snake traps, snake-sniffing dogs and snake-hunting inspectors have all helped control the population, but the snakes have proved especially hardy and now infest the entire island. Guam is home to an estimated 2 million of the reptiles, which in some areas reach a density of 13,000 per square mile \u2014 more concentrated than even in the Amazonian rainforests,\u00a0the government says<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But brown tree snakes have an Achilles’ heel: Tylenol.<\/p>\n

For some reason, the snakes are almost uniquely sensitive to acetaminophen, the active ingredient in the ubiquitous over-the-counter painkiller. If you can get a tree snake to eat just 80 milligrams, you can kill it. That’s only about one-sixth of a standard pill \u2014 pigs, dogs and other similarly sized animals would have to eat about 500 of them to get into any trouble.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute \u2014 to kill snakes Snake traps, snake-sniffing dogs and snake-hunting inspectors have all helped control the population, but the snakes have proved especially hardy and now infest the entire island. 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