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Now some scientists are trying to help quolls, and maybe other species, by teaching them that cane toads are not food and should be avoided.

If there is only a gaping wound left then it must gush forth though it produce nothing but toads and bats and homunculi.

Cane toads to the right of the track on the grass stared at me and I tried not to step on the fat ones.

They were cheap dates - I've never been much of a sport - but my results matched those of acquirers who courted higher-priced toads.

Driven by curiosity, she followed these toads and found that " this line is at least 200 meters long" .

The door opened, and he saw a big, fat toad sitting there, surrounded by a large number of little toads. The fat toad asked what he wanted.

Unfortunately, most toads turn out to be as warty as they look, and magic kisses are harder to bestow than executives think.

Your circumstances are even more extreme: saying almost anything is dangerous as you don't want to ally yourself with either of these toads.

Perhaps most surprisingly, at least in the case of toads, bigger body size is better.

Toads pursuit of swans, swan disdain said: If I as long as you die!

Scientists can't predict earthquakes. But toads might be able to.

We have moved cane toads, wild pigs, mice, rats, weeds, sparrows, pavement ants and thousands of other species around the world with us.

No frogs -- only toads are allowed to race. What's the difference between a frog and a toad? See below.

Frogs and toads seem to be born directly from the black mud.

It works really well, the sounds and visual of a plague of toads hopping around and exploding in poisonous goo is entertaining to me.

The toads emit a poison that attacks the heart of predators. But meat ants are impervious to this.

plague of toads is fun too. she hurls out 3 croaking frogs that hop forward a couple of times and blow up in acid splats.

During the day, the number of toads in the dark hidden places, such as stone, the soil or grass inside the cave.

asked the fairy. Miserella did not open her mouth. Toads were among her least favorite animals.

the white smocked priest came after him tidying his stole with one hand , balancing with the other a little book against his toads belly.

The cane toads were small enough and the toxic dose not large enough to kill the toad-fed quolls, but it did make them sick.

At snack time, the children sat on logs and munched on carrots and nuts while Ms. Kluge told them about the life cycle of toads.

A possible source of this myth is that some toads have poison glands that make humans break out in a rash that looks like warts.

Toads may be able to detect imminent earthquakes, according toscientists.

I bit my lip, aware that the words popping out of my mouth resembled ugly, poisonous toads .

In 1930, a man is carried a mile across the Kansas, fish and toads rain from the sky.

After all, if the toads' evolution is driven solely by a drive to reproduce, they would have stopped to enjoy the spoils of invasion.

They would also like to see if other species such as goannas and bluetongue lizards could be taught not to eat cane toads.

The woman's posting complained about the lack of attractive men on the Web site: "Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads? "

Cane toads are the best-studied candidate for spatial sorting, though gaps in data still exist.

She was studying the effects of lunar cycles on the toads'behaviour and reproduction.

Toads may not be thrown, or otherwise propelled other than by their own power, over the finish line.

I lived off rats and toads, and I starved for you.

The fastest-spreading cane toads also had the highest mortality rates. Longer, stronger toad legs led to spinal injuries.

When a full moon rose three days after the quake, a few toads risked a return.

Frogs and Toads blinked out of the sides of their heads.

Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid lives of the Mississippi.

In the previous three years, she had watched the toads increase in number with the waxing of the moon.

On the ground below the dragons there were eight copper toads raising their heads and opening their mouths opposite the dragons' mouths.

Their predators include lizards, geckos, jumping spiders, toads, birds, rodents, bats, and shrews.

Furthermore, osthol decreased the action potential amplitude of isolated sciatic nerves in toads.

Giant bats are bats about the size of a cat or a small dog. They make prey of small rodents or toads.

She suggests exploring how toads respond to some of the changes she believes could have triggered their mass exodus.

The tale of two toads shows that amateur mistakes may be amusing.

Large number of toads in winter hidden in the bottom mud or rotten-ri-ri, but also the soil on land in winter.

Ten tiny tortoises tried to talk to twenty timid toads.

Hagar, the witch, chanted an awful incantation over her kettleful of simmering toads, with weird effect.

Kammerer said that by forcing midwife toads to mate in water, he could prove that they would develop the same bumps.

No toads returned to the site until 10 days later, after the last of thesignificant aftershocks had finished.

These pools often contain hundreds of newly-hatched tadpoles which will become frogs or toads quickly, before the water all evaporates.

Most toads do not have teeth, unlike their fellow amphibian, the frog.

Where cane toads are present snakes are evolving smaller mouths (those with bigger mouths eat cane toads and, in doing so, die).

Removing a unique combination of toes in frogs and toads is a common way for ecologists to ID individuals.

Peppermint Toads: Toad-shaped peppermint sweets that hop about in the stomach after they've been eaten .

At least our kisses didn't turn them into toads.

Early eradication methods included hitting the toads with golf clubs or cricket bats.

We have tried occasionally to buy toads at bargain prices with results that have been chronicled in past reports.

Toads and frogs are amphibians that have protruding eyes.

type genus of the Bufonidae; common toads of New and Old Worlds.

Toads are distributed throughout the country.

Not a toad, toads went outta fashion years ago, yeh'd be laughed at - an' I don' like cats, they make me sneeze. I'll get yer an owl.

The seismic shift continued to set off aftershocks almost every day, but Grant stayed to count her toads.

In other words, investors can always buy toads at the going price for toads.

Can we use them to collect and destroy cane toads - the only real foreign invasion that is a threat?

Book Reviews: 1. Keeping Amphibians. A practical guide to caring for frogs, toads, newts and salamanders2. The Snakes of Trinidad &Tobago.

Or maybe I'd end up like my Uncle Ted, a peculiar man who preferred breeding toads to breeding children.

Toads have shorter legs and are generally clumsier than frogs.

It seemed to him that he beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads .

They took 62 young quolls and fed half of them with small dead cane toads which were laced with nausea-inducing thiabendazole.

Frogs and toads taste like chicken and are great in stir-fries.

He says toads sometimes travel en masse to breeding sites, or emerge in groups when large numbers of young are born at the same time.

Its stores sell live turtles and toads. It is happy for its staff to join a union.

All three toads shoot oil on the summons except the bird.

But how were cane toads gifted with those traits in the first place?

Cane toads have evolved in odd ways Down Under.

There's no need for water holding toads in the arctic.

The stones are wet and mossy and in the crevices are black toads.

A group of toads were hopping about on the moor.

Nero: Cut me some slack. I'm just not big on toads.

The moon grew from crescent to gibbous, and suddenly the toads were gone.

Cut me some slack. I'm just not big on toads.

Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

It went from 96 toads to almost zero over three days.

One dayshe noticed there were no toads.

Or is it this: To go into foul water when it is the water of truth, and not disclaim cold frogs and hot toads?

Toads have an ugly appearance but they are useful.

I'll never give my money to those corrupt tax toads who are puffed up on their own importance!

Toads and snakes are repulsive to many people.

I'm just not big on toads.

Cane toads introduced to Australia are evolving longer legs that aid in colonizing new habitats (for example, Philips et al. , 2007).

Amphibians (frogs, toads and salamanders), for example, were not "completely evaluated" (with more than 90% of species assessed) until 2004.

I was going out every evening at dusk andcounting how many toads were active and how many pairs there were.

Objective To study the influence of toad venom on the electrophysiological character of toads' sciatic nerves.

Objective: To study the different effects of Shenfu injection in nerve center, neuro-muscular junction and muscle of hop toads.

Eyeball the people to eat right. , Toads, pumpkin head, but also play the vampire dentures oh.

It's a one way choice, like the introduction of rabbits or cane toads to Australia;

Toads rescued from extinction, sexing a sloth and radioactive boar - the pick of this week's images from the natural world

I lived of rats and toads and I starved for you

I live off rats and toads and I starved for you

Effect of compound dextromethorphan granules on cough-relieving in guinea pigs and on the movement of esophageal cilia in toads

STUDY ON THE NUCLEIC ACID CONTENT IN THE LIVER TISSUES OF RABBITS RATS AND TOADS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH EVOLUTION

Effects of Three Chinese Traditional Drugs on Afferent Discharge from Single Muscle Spindle in Toads

Characteristics of the relative refractory period of compound active potential of sciatic stem in toads

Study on Isolation of Pathogenic Dematiaceous Fungi from Wild Toads

Effects of dicofol on peripheral blood erythrocytes of toads

the tiger keelback snake eat toads to steal their poison;

Peppermint creams shaped like toads

Chang'e, toads, rabbits --Brief talk on moon culture

Gray toads, rotten moldy in wet mud jump forward;

one kind of American toads

Frogs and Toads of the World

As is known to everyone, there were many Golden toads live in the plain in