Did you know that the government of Ecuador had a war with goats? Read!

So according to this twitter user @dawudi the government of Ecuador essentially had a war with goats . Yes. The animals. This is a thread on how it happened. Read below

A little background on goats . They are , despite belief, actually quite intelligent and very adaptable. They have the ability to survive in almost all climes and a very good reproductive rate. They have been shown to have quite high cognitive ability and learning.
— Dawudi (@ThatMasakaOtaku) May 14, 2020

Goats first arrived to these islands on the ships of whalers, who left them there to survive so they could have food when they made a pit stop. I don't think they really expected them to do as well as they did. In 1959,some fishermen left 3 goats there. These 3 turned into 30000
— Dawudi (@ThatMasakaOtaku) May 14, 2020

It was agreed that all the goats needed to be killed. Ideas like importing lions came up , but it was too crazy. So, they decided a war on goats needed to be declared and for that, they called in The Military. This was the launch of the codenamed- "PROJECT ISABELLA"
— Dawudi (@ThatMasakaOtaku) May 14, 2020

The operation began with squads of hunters crossing the island with squads of hunters , which shot all the goats on sight. However this was inefficient. So they brought in *Helicopters* with two trained snipers on either side to systematically shoot and eliminate the goats .
— Dawudi (@ThatMasakaOtaku) May 14, 2020

You'd have thought this meant the end of the goats? Wrong. The goats while suffering losses at first , grew wise to this tactic. They learnt the sound of the helicopters and started to hide underground , and maintain foliage cover . They resorted to guerilla tactics.
— Dawudi (@ThatMasakaOtaku) May 14, 2020

This brought in the use of the infamous – “Judas Goat”. What’s a Judas Goat you ask? Well. They would find a female goat in the wild, tag it with a GPS tracker, and let it lead them to its underground comrades. They would then proceed to slaughter everyone except Judas. They used several Judas goats and by 2006, finally after a long battle with the goats putting up stiff resistance. The main islands were declared Goat Free and the population of species like the Giant Galapagos Tortoise started to rebound.5111410Dawudi@ThatMasakaOtaku·May 14The war on goats….was won. But spare a moment for the tenacity, wisdom, and drive of the Capra aegagrus hircus aka the domestic goat

Did you know that the government of Ecuador had a war with goats? Read!

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