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What are 'Judas animals' and why are they used?
Original: What on Earth are Judas animals?
A 'Judas animal' is an individual animal that is marked or collared and released so that wildlife managers can track it back to groups of its own kind, which are then culled or sterilised while the marked animal is left behind. The method is used in pest and feral species control, targeting goats, pigs, horses and other species, and the name references the biblical Judas for the betrayal of companions. Discussion is focused on explaining how the technique works and the ethics surrounding it.
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- What on Earth are Judas animals? · BBC Wildlife Magazine
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