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Project Isabela: Eliminating Goats from the Largest Galapagos Island
- aastronaut 5y agoThis is an interesting bit in particular: Data management became as critical for the hunters as marksmanship skills. As goats are social animals, sterilized Judas goats, fitted with radio collars and then released into the population, would seek out the remaining feral goats, allowing them to be located through radio telemetry and then eliminated.
- superjan 5y agothis story is also told in this great radiolab episode: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/galapagos https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/galap...
- hackeraccount 5y agoNext up rats. That'll be trickier I bet.
- lazyeye 5y agoAustralia tried to cull wild goats at one point using sterilized dingos with an embedded time-delay poison pill. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/18/queensland-shuts-down-inhumane-goat-cull-using-poisoned-dingoes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/18/queen...