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  • Guam airport. Jack Russel Terrier searching, sniffing for brown tree snakes in the freight section of the airport. They want to keep the snakes from spreading to other islands or the mainland USA. There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • US department of agriculture Mike Smith with beagle, Cagney, sniffs luggage from arrivals from Asia for fruit, vegetables and meat. Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. USA.
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  • US department of agriculture Jonathan Saito with beagle, Joice, checking a Northwest Airlines flight from Guam for brown tree snakes. Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Li Jinxian always likes to buy fruit from the same vendor, a woman whom she has built a rapport with over time. This week her husband, Cui Haiwang, has come shopping with her; usually he's away working in Beijing. Both husband and wife are discriminating fruit and vegetable shoppers. Sniffing and pinching each item before deciding on a purchase is standard operating procedure. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 85). The Cui family of Weitaiwu village, Beijing Province, China, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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