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Animal Face Offs

To offset a booming pelican population, Idaho's Department of Fish and Game announced  plans on Wednesday to release skunks and badgers in their territory. But experiments in controlling animal and plant populations by natural means don’t always go so well. VIEW OUR GALLERY of humankind’s best and worst attempts to control pests with predators.

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