Miyoko wanted to tell this news to Michael, but Michael has been helping accounting work at Iboban Agricultural High School for several days.  The high school is where Ryan is working as a teacher.  Michael will not be back for a while.

    Miyoko is not sure if she is happy or sad upon knowing that Banana is alive.  Miyoko is fine if Banana is living well and safe. Is there any way to prevent Banana from being killed? She could return to the island again, but even if Banana still remembers Miyoko, it's unlikely that he would come out. The cat had chosen before to not come out for Miyoko.

    Scrub fowl collect leaves on the ground to form a large mound and lay eggs in it. Since scrub fowl keep using and improving the nest for generations, the pile eventually becomes a huge pile. Miyoko walked around the island when she was looking for Banana, but she didn't see such a mound.

     Palau's scrub fowl are supposed to be a ground dweller, but that may not mean that it cannot fly at all. A chicken may be called a ground dwelling bird, but Palauan chickens can fly to the top of a tall palm tree. Miyoko even witnessed a big chicken flying over the jungle.

    When she got home, she took mousetraps from her shopping bag. Miyoko has never used a mousetrap. She had no idea what to use for bait. In American cartoon movies, mice are always stealing cheese.  Miyoko took the cheese out of the fridge, set a small piece in a mousetrap, and placed it under the kitchen sink.

    Miyoko checked the mousetrap every day, but no mouse was caught.

The cheese had only small bite marks, probably from cockroaches. Miyoko patiently changed a new piece of cheese every day. A few days later, Miyoko witnessed a large mouse running alone on the wall of the living room. It's clear that this is a different mouse than the one doing a tightrope on her cord the other night. The appearance of two mice means that there must be many times more mice nearby. When she witnessed the second mouse, Miyoko happened to be eating noodles; noodles with fishcake. How about fishcake as a bait since cheese is not working? 

    It turns out that Palauan mice like fishcake. From the next day onwards, Miyoko found a dead mouse on the mousetraps.  The metal spring cleanly hit the mouse's neck. Why does the mouse stretch its neck exactly under the spring? It never approached from the side and took only bait. However, Miyoko found dead mice only about the first ten days or so using fishcake. After that the number of catches gradually decreased, and eventually they completely stopped. Miyoko doesn't know if the mice are gone or if they have learned and are avoiding the mousetraps.