The headline seemed too strange to be true, the animal equivalent of the 82nd Airborne parachuting behind enemy lines in Normandy:

"Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes."

Back in 2013, in an attempt to quell the out-of-control population of invasive brown tree snakes which was devastating Guam's local birds and mucking with electrical infrastructure, the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Wildlife Service bombarded targeted areas owned by the U.S. Government with dead mice, each armed with 80 milligrams of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. The idea was that the snakes would eat the mice and die.