{"id":262587,"date":"2021-05-29T23:11:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T20:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/australias-mouse-epidemic-about-to-get-worse-with-snake-plague\/"},"modified":"2021-05-29T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T20:11:23","slug":"australias-mouse-epidemic-about-to-get-worse-with-snake-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/australias-mouse-epidemic-about-to-get-worse-with-snake-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"#Australia\u2019s mouse epidemic about to get worse \u2013 with snake plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Australia\u2019s mouse epidemic about to get worse \u2013 with snake plague<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s about to get even worse for Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The hordes of cannibalistic, fire-starting mice that have taken over almost half of the country from Brisbane to Melbourne are continuing unabated \u2013\u00a0but the worst is yet to come as experts warn a plague of snakes is sure to follow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the mice, the snakes will follow,\u201d Gerard Dallow, from Micropest in Sydney, told\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/mouse-plague-will-it-come-to-sydney-increase-in-snakes-to-follow\/319f08a1-fe78-4a92-ac65-958f0c050a78\">Nine News<\/a>, adding the infestation of mice was common for South Australia, but not for New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mice aren\u2019t likely to leave the food sources and head into the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The millions of mice have caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in crop damage and have started cannibalizing themselves.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Mice scurry around stored grain on a farm near Tottenham, Australia on May 19, 2021\" class=\"wp-image-18380521 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-mice-plague054.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-mice-plague054.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-mice-plague054.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-mice-plague054.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-mice-plague054.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mice scurry around stored grain on a farm near Tottenham, Australia on May 19, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"879\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Hank, a working dog turned mouser, drops a mouse he caught on a farm near Tottenham, Australia.\" class=\"wp-image-18380529 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-mice-plague057.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-mice-plague057.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-mice-plague057.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-mice-plague057.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=879 879w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/australia-mice-plague057.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1716 1716w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 879px\"\/><figcaption>Hank, a working dog turned mouser, drops a mouse he caught on a farm near Tottenham, Australia.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When they run out of food, when they run out of seeds to eat, they start cannibalizing, they start eating each other,\u201d Xavier Martin, the vice president of the New South Wales Farmers\u2019 Association,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2021-05-26\/theyre-everywhere-mouse-plague-spreading-chaos-in-australia\">told ITV News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re pretty disgusting animals,\u201d he said of the millions of rodents caught running rampant in\u00a0stomach-churning videos.<\/p>\n<p>While the serpents will curb the mouse population run amok, they are a bigger danger to humans as over 100 species of snakes in Australia are venomous and deadly to humans\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The hordes of cannibalistic, fire-starting mice that have taken over almost half of the country from Brisbane to Melbourne are continuing unabated \u2013\u00a0but the worst is yet to come as experts warn a plague of snakes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/snake-059.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[107734,20358,71659,51935],"class_list":["post-262587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-29-21","tag-australia","tag-snakes","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}