Natural History Wanderings

NPR reports

Every year, the USDA drops millions of oral rabies vaccines across fourteen states, mostly along the eastern seaboard. (Texas also has a program.) In urban and suburban areas, this usually means officials drive around, depositing bait where raccoons are likely to find it and eat it, like around dumpsters.

In rural areas, though, there’s a more efficient way to distribute the bait.

“They’re scattered by these low flying planes.

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