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    China Dispatches Army of Ducks to Western Border

    China is fighting invading "terrorists" from Pakistan and India (strange bedfellows, eh) with a novel new "army" made up of 100,000 ducks.


    A video shared by China’s state-run news site CGTN shows thousands of ducks waddling in legions down a road on their way to face the insects.One Twitter user said the ducks “look like the allies troops here”.

    The brown birds, dubbed “duck troops” by Chinese media, have been used to tackle locust infestations before and can be more effective than pesticides.

    A resident named Wang, from Xinjiang, told Chinese newspaper Global Times that previous locust outbreaks happened in the end of summer and autumn in the region’s grassland areas.
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    Just like the mormons only different
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    Interesting, for I did not know that ducks had successfully been used that way before.

    Heck, if it works, why not?

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    Quote Originally Posted by UTAH View Post
    .....Heck, if it works, why not?

    Hunter
    Darn right! And when the war is over, you don't have to find them jobs or support systems, you just eat 'em! Yum, duck gumbo!
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