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A comment on New Zealand’s War on Rats (2017).

Re:New Zealand’s War on Rats (2017) by teslabox on Sunday April 22, 2018 @01:51AM (#16894893)
... an Arizona company came up with an interesting approach to rodent control: poison their reproductive organs. They got approval to sell their formula in 2016.

https://senestech.com and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContraPest

No gene editing required.

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Re:New Zealand’s War on Rats (2017) by dpeckett on Sunday April 22, 2018 @02:25AM (#16894965)
I wonder if the drug would work on felines, combined with the technology/approach here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpJBI_502U you may have an ethical way of dealing with what's a huge problem in Australia. I've been keeping an eye on this technology for a while now.
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