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West Point Cadet’s Mouse Release

10,000 Birds

Releasing any wild animal is essentially rolling the dice. Rabbits scamper into the underbrush, only to encounter a coyote nobody saw standing there. Naturally people question the video’s credibility, especially after that stupid and damaging eagle-snatching-a-toddler hoax by a Canadian college. What’s our choice?

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles. Rabbits were introduced to the island by guano miners, which turned the previously verdant island into a giant sand dune; almost all vegetation was wiped out. That would have been awful.

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