Millions of dead mice to be dropped by helicopter on Guam

An anonymous tipster has drawn our attention to this fast-breaking news in the Pacific:

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.

Let's hope that the snakes do eat the mice and not some other poor, unsuspecting native species. Unforeseen consequences are always a risk when you drop dead mice out of choppers!
(Article here.)