{"id":816,"date":"2010-10-03T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=816"},"modified":"2010-10-03T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T23:00:00","slug":"have_a_mice_day_snaky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/have_a_mice_day_snaky","title":{"rendered":"Have a Mice Day, Snaky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"250\" alt=\"mouse and snake\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2010\/mouse_snake.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/computer-accessories\/keyboards-mice-accessories\/computer-mice\/l-349\">mice<\/a> stuffed with tablets of concentrated acetaminophen have been airdropped into Guam&rsquo;s jungle to curb the population of an invasive species of snake. The drug acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol which in humans relieves pains and fevers. It sends snakes into a coma and kills them.<\/p>\n<p>The brown tree snake was inadvertently introduced to Guam, a U.S. Pacific island territory, from the Solomon Islands after World War Two. The snake has since been responsible for the elimination or reduction of populations of indigenous species.<\/p>\n<p>The spiked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/computer-accessories\/keyboards-mice-accessories\/computer-mice\/l-349\">mouse<\/a> corpses are attached to flotation devices &ndash; pieces of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/mailroom-warehouse\/packaging\/cardboard-boxes\/l-3423\">cardboard<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/paper\">Paper<\/a> streamers &ndash; so that the bait gets stuck in the trees where the snakes live.<\/p>\n<p><i>Source<\/i>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2010\/09\/100924-science-animals-guam-brown-tree-snakes-mouse-tylenol\/\">National Geographic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead mice stuffed with tablets of concentrated acetaminophen have been airdropped into Guam&rsquo;s jungle to curb the population of an invasive species of snake. The drug acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol which in humans relieves pains and fevers. It sends snakes into a coma and kills them. The brown tree snake was inadvertently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Computer_Supplies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Have a Mice Day, Snaky<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/have_a_mice_day_snaky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Have a Mice Day, Snaky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dead mice stuffed with tablets of concentrated acetaminophen have been airdropped into Guam&rsquo;s jungle to curb the population of an invasive species of snake. 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