根据第一段 "Cane toads, also known as bufo toads, are yet another invasive(入侵)species that has found a hospitable home in warm southerm Florida. Deliberately introduced from South and Central America in the 1930s, they were supposed to control beetles damaging the sugarcane crop-that's how...
The article reports that Professor Rick Shine of the University of Sydney and his team have discovered that cane toads possess an alarm pheromone that helps them detect the presence of a threat but frequency exposure to...
Why are cane toads in Australia considered an invasive species rather than simply nonnative? Why are cane toads in Australia considered an invasive species rather than simply nonnative? ...They are destructive to native species and have no natural predators. Are lionfish invasive species? Lionfish a...
Cane toads, also known as bufo toads, are yet another invasive (入侵) species that has found a hospitable home in warm southern Florida. Deliberately introduced from South and Central America in the 1930s, they were supposed to control beetles damaging the sugarcane crop— that’s how they go...
n Australia, invasive cane toads(Bufo marinus)are highly toxic to native snakes. Snakes are gape-limited predators, so the arrival of toads may exert selection on snake morphology, which is quantified using relative head size. For each section ...
They could avoid the animals even when the larger cane toads arrived. According to the researchers, eighteen months after the study started most of the trained lizards keep alive, while those that were not exposed to the small toads die from their poison.”(研究人员表示,只需要一两次试验就能...
The international list of invasive species-defined as those that were introduced by humans to new places, and then _41_-runs to over 4,000.In Australi a and New Zealand hot war is fought against introduced creatures like cane toads(甘蔗蟾蜍)and rats.Some things that are uncontroversial(无...
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The introduction and subsequent spread of cane toads ( Bufo marinus ) through Australia has killed many anuran-eating snakes unable to survive the toad's toxins. However, one native species, the keelback snake ( Tropidonophis mairii ), is relatively resistant to toad toxins and remains common ...
THE TOADS are coming! 来自 Nature 喜欢 0 阅读量: 25 作者: P Aldhous 摘要: Darwin is bracing itself for an invasion. Bufo marinus, otherwise known as the cane toad, has been advancing across the Australian landscape for decades. Ravenous, poisonous and an explosive breeder, it has acquired ...