A collection of times when the governments tried to take on local snakes and rats...and failed. How did tiny rodents (etc) beat back some of the most powerful governments in the world? Find out with Red & Scoot!

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/pmjrdg/is_there_evidence_for_the_cobra_effect_story/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#:~:text=The%20original%20cobra%20effect,-The%20Indian%20cobra&text=The%20British%20government%2C%20concerned%20about,breed%20cobras%20for%20the%20income.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre

https://www.hanoivietnam.fr/le-massacre-des-rats-de-hanoi-en-1902/

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23416106

https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsb.787

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