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by ams6110 4574 days ago
And, even if they do eat them, if there's any significant variation in natural tolerance to acetaminophen among the snakes, you will just end up selecting for it and eventually this approach will stop working. Still, if it works, it's cheap and relatively harmless control for the short term.
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Gene pool is probably very small - if they were introduced with a couple from a cargo ship, maybe microscopic. Little chance for selection to work.