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The Parable of the Goat Mites

10,000 Birds

And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science. And so, the U.S. Navy, having acquired authority over the island, began to trap, and then to shoot, the goats.

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