Real Mouse Guard Mission: 2,000 mice dropped on Guam by parachute to kill snakes

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Saw this today, and had to share:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/02/21724382-two-thousand-mice-dropped-on-guam-by-parachute-to-kill-snakes?lite

From the headline, you might think that this was a War conflict, but based on the text of the story, I think it was actually Science.