cane toads

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cane toads have evolved in odd ways Down Under.

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

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